Male peacock tail feathers say a bunch of 5 tied together is the proven tool to 'freeze' the house lizards specially for the apprentices like 'palmer' .

You need to locate the lizard stopped or crawling on floor / wall / ceiling just bring the 'fan' side over the body of the 'enemy' .. the creature would just drop down & 'freeze'[ standstill ] like in a state of unconciousness for few seconds .. then what remained is the pick & drop out.

The creature is not harmed in this way.

Now some would ask about the peacock feathers availability ..

if kept in house, generally works as insects repellent ..