Adie was probably over sixty. Her confession said she had renounced her baptism and attended gatherings with other witches. Dr Louise Yeoman, who has studied the minutes, sees a clever and inventive woman refusing to give names beyond those already known, while enduring cruel treatment. She died in custody before her case was concluded.
Her neighbour Grissell Anderson was among those she named. The Fife Witches Trail puts a bronze plaque for Adie at the entrance to Valleyfield Wood and another at Torryburn. This is documented history with lurid detail from a forced confession, so the supernatural claims are those of the interrogators and the accused, not verified events.
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