In September 1661, Katherine Casse, a resident of Lugtown in the parish of Dalkeith, near Edinburgh, became entangled in the complex legal apparatus of the Scottish witch trials. Her case, documented under reference C/LA/2788, was formally recorded on the 10th of September during a period of intense judicial activity regarding witchcraft accusations. The transition of her case from initial registration to the formal trial process is marked in the records by two specific entries, T/JO/433 and T/LA/333, which track the administrative progression of the proceedings against her within the local and national courts.
Beyond these procedural milestones, the archival trail provides limited insight into the specific allegations leveled against Katherine. Like many others caught in the seventeenth-century judicial net, her name remains preserved within the registers that document the rigorous, and often fatal, scrutiny applied by the kirk sessions and secular courts of the time. The record of Katherine serves as a testament to the institutional formality with which such cases were handled, reflecting the wider climate of suspicion and legal inquiry that defined the mid-seventeenth-century Scottish experience.