Proffessional mourners (klogerins) in the cemetery in Brody.
  During the month of Elul, it was customary to visit the graves
 of relatives and of very pious Jews to pray for eternal rest for
 the deceased and to beg them to intervene with G-d on behalf
of the living.  Professional mourners were sometimes hired to
 improvise prayers and entreaties in Yiddish; they wailed and
 fell upon the graves, in a show of mourning.