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Roanoke was a colony located on Roanoke Island that disappeared. The colony was founded by Sir Walter Raleigh in the late 16th century on behalf of Queen Elizabeth I. Queen Elizabeth I had wanted to create a non-temporary English town in the United States. The colonists later disappeared during the Anglo-Spanish War while waiting for supplies from England. The last shipment of supplies that they had received had been three years prior and when Raleigh’s men returned both the colonists and city were gone, with no evidence of what had occurred. The charter and financing for the colony ...

Witchcraft can be defined as the use and application of magical powers typically obtained from sorcery or evil spirits in performing unbelievable things. Or it can as well be defined as the invocation and exercise of alleged powers which are supernatural in nature in controlling events or people with the involvement of magic or sorcery. Therefore, a witch can be described as an individual who performs these supernatural scenes. In most cases, the unavoidable element of witchcraft is the infliction of painful feeling to one party in efforts of satisfying the wants of the other party. These painful inflictions ...

Shinto is the religion of the people of Japan. According to it, Japan was the first place to be created, and the deities started to appear spontaneously. Then the relationship between these deities led to the birth of a man and woman called Izanagi and Izanami respectively. The two dipped a jeweled spear into the ocean, and that is when the land of Japan was created (Blacker, 2004). They later got married and become involved sexually, and then they gave birth to their first child who turned out to be deformed. They later got involved sexually and gave birth ...