It's difficult to believe when you look at it now, but the picturesque town of Willisau nurses a grizzly past. The central Swiss village of 7000 residents has been ransacked by marauders and ravaged by fire several times over. Women accused of witchcraft were once burned alive here and a chapel immediately outside the city's medieval-era wall is dedicated to the memory of three ill-fated mercenaries mysteriously struck down one-by-one after allegedly drawing the blood of Christ following a card game.