In the spring of 1624, the legal machinery of the Scottish witch trials turned toward Culross, Fife, centering on a married woman named Jonnett Tor. As recorded in the judicial archives under case reference C/EGD/957, Jonnett was formally accused of witchcraft on the 30th of March. Her residence in Culross placed her within a community where such accusations were handled with increasing procedural rigor by the kirk sessions and local magistrates, reflecting the prevailing religious and legal anxieties of the early seventeenth century.
The gravity of the proceedings against Jonnett culminated in the production of a formal confession, as documented in the trial records (T/LA/429). While the specific contents of her testimony remain part of the broader legal record, the existence of this confession marks a critical point in her interaction with the judicial authorities of the period. By securing this statement, the court formalised the case against her, transitioning the accusation from local suspicion into the established framework of criminal prosecution that defined the witch hunts of post-Reformation Scotland.