Make your fingers smoke

Smoking fingers is a basic magic trick, but it still gets a wow up-close, especially if your audience is barside and slightly inebriated.

The "brown stuff" is the red phosphorus and glass powder. The friction from rubbing fingertips produces smoke, but no flame.

Amp this trick up with several matchbooks worth of "brown stuff" to make your whole hands smoke!

Photo by J/F/, Flickr.