1. Buried Treasure - It's a popular belief that pirates bury treasure. From what I have read, William Kidd is the only pirate known to actually have done it. His was found, and it is suspected that be buried even more in other places, but since those have never been found he probably didn't. Lots of fiction has been written about pirates burying treasure, including The Gold-Bug by Edgar Allan Poe.
2. Edgar Allan Poe - American write best known for writing creepy stories. Influenced not only literature, but cosmology and cryptography. May have died from alcoholism, "delirium tremens, heart disease, epilepsy, syphilis, meningeal inflammation, cholera, and rabies."
3. The Black Cat - a short story by Poe in which the narrator becomes an alcoholic and harms his beloved cat. It's sad and very mean to cats so I won't go into more detail. My daughter has read it in the past and remembered it was a one-eyed cat, but had forgotten how it happened. Symbolically, Pluto the cat becomes a witch that haunts him.
4. Witchcraft - the practice or belief in magic. Can also be a religion (Wicca). In Japan, witches are people who employ either foxes or snakes. The kitsune-mochi makes a deal with a fox, to provide food and shelter in exchange for it doing the person's bidding. The Tsukimono-suji is a family of hereditary witches that employ foxes. Employing snakes is much less common than foxes.
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