Tomb of a dead man recently burried. At the head a fir decorated with crowns.

N.P., a gravedigger of Dobritsa, in Oltenia, Rumania, told me in 1974 how to proceed to fight against a menacing dead who 'comes back' : "One exhumes the dead body, drives a big nail through the heart and cuts the skin between thumb and forefinger with scissors. This is what happened to Ion eight days after his burrial. One took a stallion and tried to have it jump above the tomb (a sequence of the mortuary uses that take place in the deceased room consists of stepping over the dead on his death bed). The stallion refused : therefore the dead was a moroi, a ghost. Then one opened the grave. One must be a little drunk to do this by night. The dead in the grave had his face all red. He had been shaved, but his beard had grown. Then the gravedigger took him away on his back and removed his heart. It is that famous dead whose heart jumped in the pan. With the heart he made fumigations around the children in order to free them from a magic spell (...)".
A same logic (...) applies to the fragments of speech delivered (on moroi) by experts of the place : to protect oneself against the come back of bad people who are hold responsible for the indefinite illnesses of the whole community.