the shooting of rays of light

Other Nations there are, that never have use of fire; Others, whose sperme is of a blacke colour.

This brief consideration of the material culture of imprisonment at Long Kesh/Maze has wider significance in revealing how power relations behind the wire can be very different from the public pronouncement of power inherent in traditional prison architecture

Now telleth the tale concerning the sons of Gudrun, that she had arrayed their war-raiment in such wise, that no steel would bite thereon; and she bade them play not with stones or other heavy matters, for that it would be to their scathe if they did so.