In the late summer of 1621, a woman residing in the district of Menteith, identified in the judicial records simply as the mother of Christiane Grahame, was drawn into the reach of the Scottish legal system. At fifty years of age, she found herself entangled in the escalating fervor surrounding witchcraft accusations, a situation complicated by the fact that her daughter, Christiane, had also been accused of similar transgressions. While the records do not provide the woman’s given name or her original surname—noting that "Grahame" was likely a patronymic or an affiliation inherited by her daughter rather than her own—her case was formally registered under reference C/LA/2660 on August 10, 1621.
The proceedings that followed were cataloged under trial reference T/LA/75. In the context of early modern Menteith, the entanglement of family members in witchcraft allegations was not uncommon, often stemming from the localized nature of suspicion and communal testimony. For the mother of Christiane, the legal process initiated in August marked the beginning of a formal investigation into her conduct and character, unfolding within the broader framework of the 1563 Witchcraft Act that governed such matters throughout the realm.