A Christian lights a candle in front of an icon in a temple or in front of a home iconostasis. And suddenly, instead of burning with an even, calm and radiant light, the candle begins to crack and smoke with something black.
Such a phenomenon can make a depressing impression, especially on those people who are rarely in the temple or who have recently converted to faith. There is a desire to find some "hidden meaning" in this, to understand why this happens, especially if this happens when the funeral of a loved one. Involuntarily the thought creeps in, that this may be a hint at the unfortunate fate of the deceased in the afterlife.
Folk beliefs
There are plenty of advisers who want to explain to the embarrassed person the nature of this phenomenon. All examples of modern "folklore" relating to the smoky church candle come down to one thought: if the candle smokes black smoke, it’s not without reason, it speaks of the abundance of some kind of "negative energy".
What kind of "negative energy" is this, no one can really explain: physicists do not know anything about it, priests - even less so. This does not prevent us from asserting that if a candle smokes in the hands of a certain person, it means that he needs to “clean the aura”, and if in an apartment, it means that the house also needs “energy cleaning”. It is recommended to do this with the help of the same church candles, because their flame has the property of destroying "dark energy". Especially there is a lot of such energy in the corners, there you should stand with the candle longer, as well as in those places where it smokes and bursts the most.
