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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WmRAllen67" data-source="post: 2050617" data-attributes="member: 20456">IIRC from the old Septentrionalis info, dougmander said (via email ages ago) that descendants of the Roanoke colony were still haunting the forests and swamps of the Carolinas, but didn't say what had happened...If Naumkeag (the Witches' city) is the NC analogue to Salem, the "Witch trials" either haven't happened yet, or won't, or may be an internal matter between the different covens and power structures of that society.Virginia Woolf drowned herself in 1941, and I'm not afraid to say it! She's only a demon if you're afraid of feminism!Virginia Dare, an the other hand, disappeared aloong with the other Roanoke colonists sometime between 1586 and 1595 or so. Current real-world historical thinking has it that the English colonists had moved inland from Roanoke island and were living alongside the natives, but were slaughtered when the sails of an English expedition were spotted approaching the Carolina coast. If she had survived her early childhood, then this was probably her fate. (A good resource for the English attempts at colonization in the sicteenth century [with lots of yoinkable ideas] is Big Chief Elizabeth by Giles Milton.)Bill (waiting with bated breath for this release)</blockquote>