In the winter of 1626, the legal machinery of the Scottish witch trials turned its attention toward Margaret Turnour, a married woman residing in the settlement of Tulliowne, located in the sheriffdom of Aberdeen. On the 14th of December, her name was formally entered into the judicial register under case reference C/LA/2658. The documentation marks the commencement of a process that would soon see Margaret brought before the authorities to answer for the grave allegations leveled against her.
Following the initial record of her case, the proceedings moved into the trial phase, designated as T/LA/466. As Margaret stood before the court, she became part of the broader pattern of litigation that defined the early seventeenth-century Scottish approach to perceived supernatural malfeasance. Though the records provide only the skeletal framework of her experience—her location, her marital status, and the precise chronology of her legal ordeal—they remain a stark testament to the administrative rigor applied to the inhabitants of Aberdeen during this volatile period in Scottish history.