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Article: MAGIC ONCE SEEN AS EVIL POWER.(DAILY BREAK)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- July 1, 1996
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Byline: MIKE KNEPLER, STAFF WRITER
Joan F. Higbee belongs to three magic associations, but she doesn't want to learn the insiders' tricks.
A scholar in the history of magic, she prefers her place in the audience. not the stage.
For her, magic is in seeing and believing, not knowing how it's done.
``The minute the audience knows, the whole dynamic changes,'' said Higbee, a researcher at the Library of Congress. She delivered a history lecture Sunday to the International Brotherhood of Magicians' convention in Norfolk.
Higbee's sense of awe has taken her on an intellectual journey to the 1400s, when street magicians entertained ...