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during holidays it was placed there to represent that a household was waiting for a family member to return to the warmth of the hearth/the warmth of their love or the term we use nowadays they were coming home to a warm welcome

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candles are important to pioneers because candles gave them light.

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To have light at night candles were needed. Since the Middle Ages candles had been used for light. There were the cheap tallow candles and the expensive beeswax candles.

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so that there was light in the evenings

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