There is a moment when Jay, at the height of her fear, just gazes down at some strands of grass that she has placed over her skin, and there is a something dumbstruck in the way Mitchell's camera captures this simple image: it looks weird, alien, almost evil, like everything else around her. Mitchell brings off some sensational setpieces of fear and suspense.
I sat there for the longest time, because I thought the ghost had tied me up to that tree, but then, when I finally had the strength and the courage to look around, I saw that I was sitting against the tree as if I were tied to it, but there were only a few dried-up strands of grass around me.
Do this with both strands of grass, separately.
Holding both strands of grass still twisted, twist them together counterclockwise.
Search in grass, bushes, wood, etc. Have a good look everywhere, especially on fields with tall grass; they feel safe on long strands of grass, but also camouflage well so make sure you search well!
When the boat hit the shore, Oz leaned over and pulled several strands of the grass out of the water.
Strands of artificial grass made from polyethylene fibres are sewn into a base and are then surrounded and supported by a granular mixture that simulates soil.
But the fish was stationed in the slow water of a tiny bay, just three feet below a rock poking out of the water, and among odd strands of tall grass bowed out from the bank and tippling the surface.
These included one of the world's largest birds, the stately sarus crane, whose name derives from a Hindi word meaning "bird of the lakes"; along with some of the smallest, such as the red avadavat, a tiny finch with a rich crimson plumage that perches on strands of elephant grass to feed on the seeds.
Like authentic zubrowka, this faux version comes with a strand of real bison grass in the bottle.
