In December 1649, Elizabeth Steven, a resident of Edinburgh, became entangled in the judicial machinery of the Scottish witch trials. Her case is documented within the records of the Justiciary Court (C/JO/2817), which categorise her alongside four other individuals as a confessed witch. While the fragmentary nature of the archival evidence leaves much of her personal history obscured, the procedural records confirm that her involvement in these proceedings reached a critical point in the final month of the year.
The historical record preserves a formal confession attributed to Elizabeth, dated December 1649. Although the specific substance of her admissions—the details of the alleged maleficium or diabolical pacts to which she might have testified—is not preserved in the surviving manuscripts, the existence of this confession remains the central feature of her case. Subsequent trial records (T/JO/378) offer no further narrative illumination regarding the proceedings of her prosecution, leaving the ultimate legal outcome for Elizabeth consigned to the silence of the seventeenth-century archive.