This is an Indian legend told of a ghostly-white doe that roamed an otherwise abandoned island where, once, English families sent by Sir Walter Raleigh had attempted to settle, only to vanish. Virginia Dare, the first English child born in the New World, and her parents, Ananias and Eleanor, were members of this “lost colony.
As legend has it, Virginia Dare, raised by the Croatoan Indians, was claimed by an old and powerful medicine man who, because he could not have her, cast a spell turning her into a white doe. The Indians hunted her for different reasons: one for love, another for hate. Shot in the heart at the same moment by two special arrows – a mother-of-pearl one meant to save, and a silver one meant to kill – the white doe returned briefly to her beautiful human form only to die a short time later.
Virginia Dare’s body disappeared at the same time a white doe was seen bounding off into the forest. Even today some claim to have caught glimpses of a fleeting white form late in the evening.
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