In January 1650, Marion Wilsonne, a resident of Heriot in Edinburgh, was brought before the authorities to face accusations of witchcraft. While the surviving documentation of her case remains sparse, she was formally identified as one of a group of four individuals accused of engaging in diabolical practices. The legal records indicate that Marion was subjected to the judicial processes typical of the era, resulting in the preservation of a confession dated to the same month as her initial appearance.
Despite the gravity of these proceedings, the archival record for Marion provides no further specifics regarding the nature of the activities she admitted to, nor do any documents survive to detail the conduct or outcome of her trial. She remains recorded in the rolls of the Scottish witch trials simply as a confessor, one of the many lives caught within the rigorous legal and religious framework of mid-seventeenth-century Scotland.