In 1679, Adam Donaldson, a resident of the parish of Airth in Stirling, became the subject of a legal proceeding under the jurisdiction of the Scottish witchcraft statutes. His case, documented in the records of the Justiciary Court as C/LA/3085, marks him as one of the minority of men caught within the machinery of the witch trials during this period. While the broader social anxieties of the seventeenth century often targeted women, the records indicate that the legal apparatus of the state was readily deployed against Adam when he was formally accused of involvement in occult practices.
Following his indictment, Adam was brought before the court for the judicial process designated as T/LA/1479. The progression of his trial from the initial accusation in Airth to the formal proceedings reflects the standard seventeenth-century approach to such allegations, wherein local suspicion was translated into a structured legal inquiry. Though the surviving records provide limited detail regarding the specific depositions brought against him, the existence of these official papers confirms that he remained a figure of sustained attention within the Scottish judicial system until the conclusion of the trial process.