In September 1626, the judicial machinery of Fife turned its attention to Annas Munk, a resident of the coastal burgh of Dysart. Her encounter with the legal system is preserved within the surviving ecclesiastical and secular documentation of the period, specifically under the case reference C/EGD/974. At a time when the Scottish kirk and state were deeply engaged in the regulation of communal morality and the prosecution of supernatural transgression, Annas was brought forward to answer for accusations that fell under the prevailing statutes concerning witchcraft.
The process against Annas culminated in the formal proceedings recorded under trial reference T/LA/443. While the specific nature of the charges levied against her remains held within the austere, bureaucratic shorthand of the seventeenth-century court records, her case reflects the wider patterns of scrutiny that defined the period between 1563 and 1736. As a subject of the Dysart authorities, Annas occupied a place in a historical narrative where the line between community suspicion and judicial inquiry was frequently drawn through the testimony of neighbours and the rigorous oversight of the local presbytery.