These sticks are usually made of cottonwood about seven inches long, and vary in shape, colour, and the feather attached, according to the nature of the petitions, and the person praying.

This can only be done if specific types of actions are forgotten by the person praying.

As the pain was unbearable, Shani requested Hanuman to release him, promising that he (Shani) would moderate the malefic effects of his influence on a person praying to Hanuman.

The paintings usually depict an event survived or celebrated, an illness, an operation, imprisonment, or having received a passport to the United States, or they may depict a person praying to the saint.

The icon is referred to as "Wonderworking" meaning that numerous miracles have been attributed to the intercession of the Theotokos (Mother of God) by persons praying before it.

It seems that the only person actually praying in these pictures is Tebow.

In "Islamist Iran ... one almost never sees a person praying in the street."

Shortly afterward seven seriously ill persons, praying at the grotto, enjoyed miracle cures.

In this approach, the purpose of prayer is to enable the person praying to gain a direct experience of the recipient of the prayer (or as close to direct as a specific theology permits).

In this approach, prayer enables an existential transformation in the person praying.