Valya Klimov from Kisherma had a remarkable homestead!

In our Kisherma there was Valya Klimov; I suppose Klimov was his surname. Well, he had devils (черти); he just recently died. And they say, after he died, the devils cried so much for him, oh! They say you couldn't approach the house, how they cried and moaned for him. They had lost their master. It's as if he was acquainted with the devils. He had these heads everywhere. Either from sheep, or from cows, or from a bull. He would hang them on stakes (кол) — you couldn't get near him. He didn't even need a fence for his gardens. He would just set up some stake and hang a head — cattle would walk nearby. They would enter everyone's garden, but not his.
— So, he somehow fenced his garden, with a stake and a skull (череп)?
— Yes. Yes, yes, exactly! And he would hang a skull, and that was it, nobody would go into his garden. Nobody, not a single animal would enter.
— And what kind of skulls were they?
— The skulls, well, they would kill an animal, and he would dry the skull, dry the head of the skull. And then, he would hang them on the stakes. That's how it was.

Wise People, Sorcerers, and Black Magicians: Witchcraft and Everyday Magic in the Russian North / Edited by A.B. Moroz, 2012