Mercury Thiocyanide

I can totally see ancient witch-priests dazzling the poor town-folk with this.

But then Ali S. has a good point about the witch trials!

those things scarred the pavement in my carport

Yum! Poison!

As if I'm worried about mercury fumes when its got cyanide in the name ! So snakes are bad now ?

Nate--BWAAHAHA! We used to do that too! Then we got bored and started to experiment. We discovered that if you dumped out several boxes and stacked them into a huge pyramid, and then lit the top one, it would start a chain reaction that lit the rest down the line. You could keep the fun going for eternity with enough boxes!

Mom banished us to the road after we filled the entire yard with sooty curls. Did you know that stuff turns into a black paste when it gets wet, and makes awesome shoe-prints all over freshly-cleaned carpet...? ;-)

--TwoDragons