Old stories and customs die hard or never die at all. When I lived in Switzerland I had a friend who was an undertaker. Well a man who’s home country was Bosnia died in Switzerland and his realitives wanted his body brought back to Bosina, by herse,this is one of the services offered by my friends company. Right before we were ready to leave the man’s realitives wanted to see the car we were using. Well they wanted more than to just see the herse as what they did was tie a rope to the frame and let the other end touch the ground. They asked us to make sure the rope was always touching the ground as this aidded the dead mans return to the Earth.
This was the last trip to Bosina that we made (first and last for me) as things were just too scary at this time.