In the summer of 1650, the village of Pencaitland in Haddington became the site of a significant legal proceeding involving a group of eight individuals accused of witchcraft. Among those named in the proceedings was Christian Somier. While the surviving archival records for this period are sparse, they confirm that Christian was brought before the local authorities on June 26, 1650, to face allegations that had resulted in her inclusion within this collective group of accused persons.
On that same day, Christian provided a formal confession, a central document in the judicial process of the era. Despite the existence of this record under the reference T/JO/189, the specific contents of her statements, the nature of the accusations brought against her, and the final outcome of her trial remain lost to history. Her case serves as a sober reminder of the limited documentation remaining from the period between 1563 and 1736, where the lives of many accused individuals are captured only in the brief, clinical registers of the Scottish judicial system.