In March 1623, the legal machinery of the Scottish state focused its attention upon Christiane Balfour, an indweller of the burgh of Inverkeithing in Fife. According to the surviving judicial records, Christiane was brought before the authorities to answer to the grave charge of witchcraft. The procedural documentation of her case, identified under the reference C/EGD/926, marks her as a subject of formal scrutiny during a period when the Scottish crown and local magistrates were increasingly active in the prosecution of such offenses.
During the course of the legal proceedings, Christiane provided a formal confession, a document that proved central to the subsequent trial (T/LA/70). While the specific contents of her testimony remain part of the historical record of her encounter with the court, the existence of this confession indicates that she participated in the complex dialogue required by the seventeenth-century judicial system. Through these records, Christiane remains a documented figure in the broader history of the early modern Scottish witch trials, illustrating the intersection of individual experience and the rigorous legal framework of the time.