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The Valais witch trials consisted of a witch-hunt and a series of witch trials which took place in the Valais , today part of Switzerland, beginning in 1428. The Valais witch-hunt is the first of the systematic campaigns which would become much more widespread in the decades to come, initiating the period of witch trials in Europe.
The persecutions started in French-speaking Lower Valais and spread to German-speaking Upper Valais and to nearby valleys in the Western Alps.They subsided after six to eight years , but the phenomenon spread further afield from here, to Vaud, Fribourg, Neuchatel, and beyond.
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