Editing Virginia Dare (section)

===Literary and cultural references===
[[File:Virginia Dare A Romance of the Sixteenth Century.jpeg|thumb|right|upright|Illustration from ''Virginia Dare: A Romance of the Sixteenth Century'', 19th century novel by Mrs. E.A.B. Shackelford loosely based on the life of Virginia Dare]]
Virginia Dare quickly entered into folklore as the [[first white child]] born in British America. The fate of Virginia Dare and the Lost Colony has been the subject of many literary, film, and television adaptations, all of which have added to her [[myth]]:
* One of the first was Cornelia Tuthill's 1840 novel ''Virginia Dare, or the Colony of Roanoke'', in which Virginia marries a Jamestown settler. Virginia Dare met the Indian princess [[Pocahontas]] in E.A.B. Shackleford's 1892 novel ''Virginia Dare: A Romance of the Sixteenth Century''. Virginia Dare was the main character in [[Sallie Southall Cotten]]'s 1901 book in verse ''The White Doe: The Fate of Virginia Dare''. In the book, she is turned into a white [[deer|doe]] by an Indian [[shamanism|witch doctor]] after she rejects his advances. When her true love, an Indian [[warrior]], shoots her with a silver [[arrow]], she turns back into a woman just before she dies in his arms. Cotten has asserted, however, that the tale of Dare as the White Doe had survived for some three centuries as part of colonial folklore.<ref name="Poole">Poole, W. Scott. ''Monsters in America: Our Historical Obsession with the Hideous and the Haunting''. Waco, Texas: Baylor, 2011), p. 35. {{ISBN|978-1-60258-314-6}}.</ref> In the 1908 novel ''The Daughter of Virginia Dare'', author Mary Virginia Wall made [[Pocahontas]] the daughter of Virginia Dare. In Herbert Bouldin Hawes' 1930 novel ''The Daughter of the Blood'', Virginia Dare is involved in a romantic triangle with John Smith and Pocahontas.
* Neil Gaiman has extended this story in his comic book series ''[[Marvel 1602|1602]]'', where a Native American named [[Captain America|Rojhaz]] meets Virginia Dare when she is about twelve, and an artifact of his travels causes her to transform into a series of white creatures whenever she is in danger. The storyline ends when [[Spider-Man|Peter Parquagh]] and Virginia Dare head home to her father to plot the rescue of those left in England. In later stories in the ''1602'' universe (much like the figure of legend), when attempting to flee in the form of a white doe, she is shot by [[Green Goblin|Master Norman Osborne]] and reverts to human form in front of Peter before dying.
* In [[Philip José Farmer]]'s 1965 novel ''Dare'', Virginia and the other Lost Colonists are abducted by [[Extraterrestrial life|aliens]] and settled on a planet called Dare.
* In 1969, [[Steve Cannon (writer)|Steve Cannon]] wrote ''Groove, Bang and Jive Around'', in which Virginia Dare is one of two stewardesses aboard the Statecraft One who engages in a wild orgy with Annette, the foxy adolescent girl from [[New Orleans]], and Estavanico, "Little Stevie" to some, the [[flight engineer]]. Near the end, in the land of Oobladee, she is eventually magically transformed into a frail, old woman with a cane, who explains the reasons for which she was left to explore much darker horizons, sexually. Ultimately, she falls to the floor as a pile of ashes.
* Virginia Dare appears in [[Mark Chadbourn]]'s fantasy trilogy [[Kingdom of the Serpent]], encompassing the novels ''Jack of Ravens'', ''The Burning Man'', and ''Destroyer of Worlds''. She is kidnapped along with the other Roanoke colonists and taken to the [[Celtic mythology|Celtic]] [[Other world|Otherworld]], the home of all myth and legend. She plays a key role in the final volume of the trilogy.
* A woman named Virginia Dare appears in [[Gregory Keyes]]' fantasy novel ''The Briar King''. Keyes uses several hints and word clues to indicate this character is meant to be the historical figure.
* In Volume I of ''[[Tales of the Slayer]]'', a horror story collection set in the [[Buffyverse|''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'']] universe, Virginia Dare appears as the vampire slayer "White Doe", an English girl adopted by the [[Croatan|Croatoan]] Indians. She is turned into a white doe by a [[Wizard (fantasy)|wizard]] of the tribe when she rejects his advances. Her true love, Seal of the Ocean, finds her but later kills her because he does not recognize her as a deer.
* Dare is the main villain in the short-lived television show ''[[FreakyLinks]]''. Inspired by ''[[The X-Files]]'' and ''[[The Blair Witch Project]]'', it follows a young man who takes over his twin brother's paranormal website, ''Freakylinks'', after his death. It is later found that his brother's death was related to his investigations into the lost colony of Roanoke. It is implied that Virginia Dare was a demon who destroyed the colonists, either directly or indirectly. However, the show was canceled before the end of the first season, and the mystery was never resolved.
* In the 2007 made-for-TV movie on the [[Syfy|SciFi Channel]], ''Wraiths of Roanoke'', Virginia Dare is the sole survivor after the colony is wiped out by Old Norse ghosts, or wraiths, who had died on the island centuries earlier but failed to achieve transit to Valhalla. In the movie the infant Virginia, whose innocence is needed by the wraiths, is used by her father to lure the wraiths onto a flaming raft set adrift for a Viking funeral. The last act of Ananias is to cast Virginia away from the raft in a wicker basket. She is found and adopted by the mainland Indians the next day.
* In ''[[The Necromancer: The Secrets Of The Immortal Nicholas Flamel|The Necromancer]]'', the fourth book in [[Michael Scott (Irish author)|Michael Scott's]] "[[The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel|Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel]]" series, Virginia Dare was introduced as an immortal who disables her enemies with charms from a magic flute. It is later revealed in the story that her father is the one who carved the word "Croatoan" onto the fence post and part of the tree.
* In ''[[Sabotaged (novel)|Sabotaged]]'', the third book of the "Missing Series" by [[Margaret Peterson Haddix]], Virginia Dare is a missing child from history who had been kidnapped by one of the evil villains when she was a child, but then accidentally landed in the twenty-first century. The main characters, Jonah and Katherine, are sent back into time, again, to return her to the colony. However, Andrea (also called Virginia) is tricked by a mysterious character named Second to sabotage the mission. The book takes place in [[Roanoke Island]] and they eventually travel to [[Croatoan Island]].
* In the 2011 faux-[[Southern Gothic]] show ''[[The Heart, She Holler]]'' the town matriarch, commonly referred to as "Meemaw", is named Virginia Dare. In Season 3 it is confirmed that she is the actual Virginia Dare, "the first white person born on this continent". Her birth so offended the gods of the indigenous peoples that she was "cursed" with immortality and various psychic powers including but not limited to [[telekinesis]], [[extrasensory perception]], and unexplained reality bending powers.
* She is a character in the novel ''[[The Last American Vampire]]'' written by [[Seth Grahame-Smith]].
* She is mentioned in the ''[[Sleepy Hollow (TV series)|Sleepy Hollow]]'' [[Sleepy Hollow (season 1)|season 1]] episode "John Doe", which features the lost Roanoke colony.