"Wallachia... Vlasi magic is practiced exclusively by women who are sometimes referred to as "witches". Not much is known about the exact rituals, as they are only passed on orally and strictly within the community. But white magic is said to take place only by day and with honey, flowers and water, black one at night with blood and animal carcasses. Hard to tell if many of the myths are true – such as that Vlasi cook coffee from the bath-water of dead babies or that women who want to cheat on their husbands have to slip them a blind cat's washing water to make them blind to their unfaithfulness. The mainstream media loves headlines like this, simply because they sell better than rational explanations. Sadly this doesn't do anything to help the general understanding of the Vlasi and their traditions, some of which are actually similar to common belief. The strict separation of life and death, for instance, is playing a crucial part which is why the dead have their own designated areas, kind of like a cemetery, often separated from the living by a river. In Vlasi belief everybody eventually goes to heaven, but only after his or her soul has wandered the Earth for seven years – exactly around the aforementioned area. A quite different – and probably less common – tradition regarding death is the so-called "black wedding“ which happens when a fiancé dies before a couple can be married. In that case the widow is obliged to wear a white wedding dress for the funeral and with the coffin’s lowering into the ground she is officially married to her dead lover. Subsequently she has to stay faithful, regularly visit his family and be a good wife for one year before only then she is on her own again."