Accusations
- Flying: to have smeared in chairs, flying through the air and plundering wine cellars.
- Lycanthropy: to have killed cattle in the shapes of werewolves.
- Invisibility: to have made themselves invisible with herbs.
- To have cured sickness and paralysis caused by sorcery by giving it to someone else.
- Cannibalism: to have abducted and eaten children.
- Curses.
- To have met and learned magic from Satan.
- Conspiracy: to have planned depriving Christianity of its power over humanity.
The Devil was to have come to sinners and promised to teach them magic if they renounced Christianity and stopped going to church and confession; they paid him taxes and he did not demand any worshipping.
Read more about this topic: Valais Witch Trials
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