The locals will scale this mountain to light prayer candles and get a great view of their town.

For this reason, flowers or prayer candles are often placed on or at the foot of the shrine.

Inside, half a hundred prayer candles burned in a fragrant silence.

Every saint's shrine, every statue inside had been gilded or silvered; places where the light couldn't reach were covered with banks of prayer candles.

It wasn't long before the woman rose from her kneeling bench, lighted some prayer candles at the back of the church, then left altogether.

Mary's idea of prayer candles, he decided.

Later yesterday, a single blue prayer candle sat next to the spot, with bits of stray police tape.

He knelt before the tiny Bohemian crucifix, the flickering light of the prayer candle throwing shadows on the draped walls.

When their eyes were locked, the blond-haired Czech wet the fingers of his right hand and reached for the prayer candle, extinguishing its flame.

Same with prayer candles, rosary beads, golems, snake-handling and so on.