In January 1662, Margaret Garvie, a married woman of middling socioeconomic status, became a subject of the Scottish judicial system during a period of intense preoccupation with witchcraft. A resident of the burgh of Falkland in Fife, Margaret was married to a local mill-gardener, a profession that situated the couple within the established social fabric of the community. Her case was officially registered in the legal archives on 30 January 1662 under the designation C/JO/2885.
While the administrative record formalizes her entry into the court system, the surviving trial notes—catalogued as T/JO/867—remain silent regarding the specific evidence or proceedings brought against her. Consequently, the details of the accusations that led Margaret to the attention of the authorities in Falkland are not preserved in the historical record. Her case remains a singular point of documentation, illustrating the reach of the witch-hunting apparatus into the lives of ordinary families in seventeenth-century Fife.