In May 1627, the records of the Scottish courts document the case of Christiane Craig, a married woman residing in Turriff, Aberdeen. The legal proceedings against her, cataloged under case reference C/EGD/1000, mark a significant moment in the local history of the witch trials. Christiane did not face this ordeal alone; the archival evidence indicates that her husband was also formally accused of witchcraft alongside her, suggesting a domestic situation that had become deeply entwined with the judicial scrutiny of the period.
The subsequent trial, recorded under reference T/LA/476, formalised the charges brought against the couple. While the specific nature of the allegations remains preserved within the dry, procedural language of the seventeenth-century judiciary, the inclusion of both spouses reflects the wider patterns of communal suspicion that often permeated parishes like Turriff during the early modern era. Through these records, Christiane remains a figure defined by the legal apparatus of the time, documenting a moment of crisis that engulfed both her and her husband within the ecclesiastical and civil systems of 1627.