Presumably, its entire body flashing with light scares away its enemies.
"Goosebumps," after all, had turned scores of pre-teens into obsessive readers with its mix of laughs and light scares.
Grab a small light.In this game light scares the zombies!
Well, someone finally turned on the lights, scared them away, and look what was revealed: a Game 7 performance that was, essentially, the opposite of so many of its predecessors.
The daftness of the show depends on a warmth made visible: brilliant light would scare the fun away.
A shurta, or guard, who called himself just John, said, "I used the light to scare away wild animals". Others said lights were hung above school desks for children and adults to study after the day's work.
"They're Middle England," said Drew, half-dismissively, explaining that the troop take it upon themselves to walk about all evening, shining torches on public footpaths in the hope that the light will scare badgers back into their setts and away from the gunmen's bullets.
They don't have eyelids, and sudden changes in light can scare them.
Some collars for wolves emit a radio frequency if they wander into someone's yard, setting off sirens and strobe lights that scare them.
She took one look at the twitching body that lay in a yellow patch of security light and, scared that she had killed him, raced upstairs again to call an ambulance.
