In the summer of 1649, the judicial machinery of the Scottish kirk session turned its attention toward Christian Stevin, a woman residing in the parish of Dalmeny, Linlithgow. On June 19, 1649, the legal proceedings against her were formally recorded under case file C/JO/3065. While the archival documentation of her life remains sparse, the gravity of her situation is evidenced by the fact that her name was brought forth by the local community of Dalmeny, who explicitly identified her as a practitioner of witchcraft.
Though Christian was a resident of Dalmeny, the primary records concerning her prosecution are preserved within the papers of the Queensferry South Old kirk session. Following the initial accusation, the process moved toward a trial—recorded as T/JO/1441—which marked the transition of her case from local suspicion to formal legal scrutiny. The archival trail ends there, leaving Christian caught in the administrative framework of a period when the intersection of communal testimony and ecclesiastical authority defined the lived experience of those accused of supernatural crimes.