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Divination: Scholarship

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Abishai100

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Is history compatible with witchcraft? If magic-divination ritual philosophies can be integrated with history, then Christianity too can be better integrated into academic society.

The mysterious disappearance of the New World colonists of Roanoke, Virginia has been rumored to have been catalyzed by the settlers' seemingly pagan fascination with the hypnosis induced by the wilderness. The settlers seemed to have intentionally wandered deep into Virginia's forests seeking to disappear and become fabled wanderers of the wilderness. The other prevailing theory is that the settlers were murdered and buried by local Native Americans threatened by their unwelcomed presence.

If the settlers were not murdered and truly did vanish into the wilderness seeking some mysterious pagan communion with the forest by disappearing from history records, then we have a story of a social communion with nature that is pagan in scope and can meld with history education.

The disappearance of the settlers of Roanoke did after all catalyze many American settler folk tales about the dangers of the New World, not unlike the cannibal omen tales surrounding the Donner Party of California.

In today's world of consumerism, Americans celebrate icons such as the Green Giant vegetable super-corporation mascot and the Wendy's fast food business darling red-head girl hero as social psyche symbols of economics divination.

How then can we integrate the enigmatic and eerie story of the Roanoke vanishing with spiritual testimonies about nature that can complement history textbooks and by transitive property give voice to Christian missionary spy games?


Did the Roanoke settlers stumble upon a pre-consumerist spirit of abandon somewhere in a forest den or Earth cave?



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