Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 17:45:34 -0400
Subject: Re: PUPT: Flashes and flashers


Coffee mate will do the same thing, and is readily available at the 
grocery, or even gas station convenience store..

>on 10/17/02 12:59 AM, Angusson-AT-aol.com at Angusson-AT-aol.com wrote:
>
>>  I wonder, Vit,  if this "Dragon breath"  could be powdered rosin?  In one of
>>  the Puppetry Yearbooks of Paul McP., there is a woodcut of a device similar
>>  to that which you described, with a brief article mentioning rosin.
>>
>To the best of my knowledge, "Dragon's Breath" is lacypodium, which I
>believe is made from ferns. It is a fine yellow powder that when airated (ie
>blown through a tube) ignights very easily. In the bottle you could
>extinguish a match in it, but when blown over an open flame it burst into
>flame and burns off very quickly, creating a bight flash of fire. The
>trouble is it takes an open flame to ignight, not something most people want
>in their puppet stage. I understand that there are many fine powders that do
>the same thing, including many household ones, but I have never tried it.
>BTW, lacypodium is used in the pharmasudical and packing industries and is
>much cheaper that way IF you can find a source.
>
>
>
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