There is an old profession in the world called "stele breakers", which does not carve or repair monuments, but breaks them - using an ancestral chisel to completely cut through the broken old monument at three o'clock in the morning, release the "things" trapped in the monument, and send it to where it should go.
There are only three rules in the industry: when the monument is cut at three o'clock, the rooster crows and the work is done; when the monument is broken three times, people take three steps back; when cutting the monument, do not look back at the shadow on the monument.