This is the bizarre moment a 'possessed' woman is freed of evil spirits during an exorcism in front of 300,000 pilgrims in Romania.

The footage shows her screaming as she is placed next to Christian relics during an exorcism ritual.

The ceremony took place during the annual yearly celebration of Saint Paraskeva, the patron of the Metropolitan Cathedral in Iasi.

More than 300,000 pilgrims, mostly Orthodox Christians, showed up for the ceremony when it took place between 10th and 14th October.

People flocked to see holy relics which allegedly have miraculous properties.

When the women started having a fit two police officers and a paramedic started taking her towards an ambulance, but an elderly woman stepped in the way and told them to take her to the relics instead.

On the way, the possessed woman can be heard screaming: 'No, where are you taking me?'

The Romanian woman was guided into a courtyard by a policemen and firstaid worker where a glass coffin containing relics was kept

Hundreds of thousands of people gather to watch the annual ceremony and officials monitor the event to in case anyone falls ills during an exorcism

When she was carried to the glass coffin containing the relics, the elderly lady accompanying her forcibly sticks her head to the glass as two riot policemen hold the screaming woman.

A priest also joined the woman and can be heard saying: 'Don’t let her go.'

The woman screams: 'I’m not getting out.'

The woman appeared to be distressed and screaming as she was freed from 'evil spirits' and made to sit next to the glass coffin

As the person believed to be demonically possessed stops screaming and looks exhausted, someone in the back says: 'The Saint indeed does wonders.'

The woman who looks as if she has fainted is then taken by the cops and the paramedic to a first aid point as her elderly companion says that modern medicine would not be needed.

Journalists from Romanian news portal ziare.com contacted Ionut Catana, a representative of the riot police, asking if he thinks it is normal for cops to perform exorcism rituals.

An elderly lady who was accompanying the woman holds her head on the glass coffin while the priest, above right, continues the ceremony

During the ceremony the woman screams 'I'm not getting out' and looks exhausted after the ordeal and

The official answered: 'The riot policemen did not act to perform an exorcism, but to offer first aid. From our point of view, any person with such behaviour has medical problems.

'They took her to a first aid point. Because that was in the courtyard of the church, they had to pass by the holy relics, but the gendarmes did not act specifically take her there.'