A female tourist was left panicking and praying her plane wouldn’t crash after staff handed passengers candles shortly before turbulence hit.
Jula Vadini, from Poland, was traveling on a 50 minute flight from Bogotá to San José Del Guaviare, in Colombia, on Saturday, December 17, when a flight attendant woke her up and handed her a small, white, electronic candle.
The staff member provided no explanation to Vadini or others on the plane, simply walking around and distributing the candles to all passengers on-board.
“I was very confused,” Vadini, 27, said in a recent video on TikTok documenting the flight.
The Polish digital content creator, who lives in the UK, began to jokingly film the candle for a TikTok video.
“Are we dying?” she questioned in the video, which has amassed over 22,000 views.
But things took a turn for the worst when the turbulence hit.
“The seatbelt sign went on and the pilot started giving security instructions in Spanish,” Vadini told news.com.au.
Unable to translate the instructions, the 27-year-old solo traveller started to “panic” that the plane was going down, and began “over-analysing all the noises”.
“I thought that the candle was given to us for good luck and to pray as we would probably crash.”
“I started to pray!”
Eventually, the plane managed to touch down safely in San José Del Guaviare, despite a bumpy landing.
It was not until after Vadini posted the video on TikTok that she discovered the true meaning behind the candle.
“I later realized that I was the only one on the flight who didn’t know about this candle tradition that happens on December 7,” she told news.com.au.
“The candle wasn’t for us to pray before the crash but for us to make a wish. Obviously, I was completely unaware of this.”
In Colombia, December 7 marks Little Candles Day or Immaculate Conception Eve — a widely held religious holiday which commemorates the immaculate conception of Jesus Christ and Virgin Mary on the following day.
During the night of December 7, lanterns and colorful candles are lit and placed on streets and outside homes to represent a wish for the well-being of loved ones.
“(It) turns out this is a Colombian tradition on December 7,” Vadini shared with her followers on Instagram.
“One candle = one wish! How wholesome.”
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