A retired primary care physician in Russia’s Volgograd city tried to revive her dead husband with consecrated water for four months.

According to the representative of the Russian Investigative Service city department Milena Frantsuzova, the 76-year-old woman looked after her 87-year-old husband, who was confined to bed after falling and damaging his leg last year.  The neighbors last saw him lying on the sofa in April.

Last Friday the apartment of the woman’s lower neighbor was flooded, and on entering the flat people saw the man’s corpse.

“They started speaking with the woman. As it turned out, she had got carried away by non-traditional medicine, and believed that by sprinkling the consecrated water on her husband she would be able to revive him.   The woman told her children that they were fine and asked them not to come,” Franstuzova said, RIA Novosti reports.

The postmortem examination showed no traces of violent death.

The representative also added that the apartment of the elderly couple, where the practically mummified body was placed, was clean and tidy.  The woman said that she didn’t feel the unpleasant odor, while the neighbors had smelled it back in spring, but attached no significance to it.