Q: Powder for fire blowing ?

Arkadiusz Wolczkiewicz

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Sep 17, 1997, 3:00:00 AM9/17/97

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I have been practising fire-blowing with many kinds of fluids
and I'd like to ask if there is some kind of powder for to do it
with? (I've heard about lycopodium - finnish name?)
Do you know about it, and if yes, where to get it ?
Anna
(I悲 prefer e-mail response,
thanks)
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donald j haarmann

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Sep 17, 1997, 3:00:00 AM9/17/97

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Arkadiusz Wolczkiewicz <wolc...@iwn.fi> wrote in article <01ba84e0$680049a0$4e3564c2@arek>...

> I have been practising fire-blowing with many kinds of fluids
> and I'd like to ask if there is some kind of powder for to do it
> with? (I've heard about lycopodium - finnish name?)
> Do you know about it, and if yes, where to get it ?
> Anna

> (I´d prefer e-mail response,
> thanks)
> --
> wolc...@iwn.fi
>

Lycopodium Finnish! Maybe by marriage. It was the Latin name assigned to the
club-mosses by the Swedish botanist Carlos Linnaeus (Carl von Linné). Also
called "vegetable sulphur" it is obtained from the spores of
Lycopodium clavatum L., Lycopiaceae. It is reported to be odorless and
tasteless. It however is frequently adulated. Further more; "Unctuous to
the touch and easily sticking to the fingers." No doubt it would also
stick to the inside of your mouth!

It is (was) used as "dry parting compound" in foundry work. It is cultivated
by neighbour of their neighbour just across the Gulf of Finland or you could
take the train to your neighbour directly.

You might also try stores that sell to magicians.

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donald j haarmann
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Sep 17, 1997, 3:00:00 AM9/17/97

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Arkadiusz Wolczkiewicz wrote:
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> I have been practising fire-blowing with many kinds of fluids
> and I'd like to ask if there is some kind of powder for to do it
> with? (I've heard about lycopodium - finnish name?)
> Do you know about it, and if yes, where to get it ?
> Anna
> (I´d prefer e-mail response,
> thanks)

This might be general interesting.

In old magic books you will find indeed lycopodium for this reason. It
is the Latin name. In German it is barlappsamen or Baerlappsporen. You
will get it in the pharmacy. Formertly it was used to make the old kind
of matches, the ones, you had to tip in H2SO4.

About 40 years ago I found another methode, but I forgot most of it. My
last remembers are: You had to use a piece of small burning carbon
inside a pack of flax.

Prucker

donald j haarmann

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Sep 21, 1997, 3:00:00 AM9/21/97

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Arkadiusz Wolczkiewicz <wolc...@iwn.fi> wrote in article <01ba84e0$680049a0$4e3564c2@arek>...

> I have been practising fire-blowing with many kinds of fluids
> and I'd like to ask if there is some kind of powder for to do it
> with? (I've heard about lycopodium - finnish name?)
> Do you know about it, and if yes, where to get it ?
> Anna
> (I´d prefer e-mail response,
> thanks)

> --
> wolc...@iwn.fi
>

Actually apparently the Finnish name is — Katinlieko!

http://www.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/warp/plants-Finnish-index-k.html