1. My for realz name is a legacy family name.
2. I don’t know the source for my nickname; whenever I would ask, my family would just smile and change the subject.
3. My avatar name comes from a long past event during which a group of 8 witches and 2 shamans were given unrestricted access to my personal journal. This happened because I felt like my psychic communications and very recently discovered energy manipulation skills were out of control and potentially harmful. I wanted mystical help to understand what was happening to me...and, understand what I am. In the end, the witches said most of my experiences fit into their understanding/practicing of witchcraft and the shamans urged that many of the other experiences were certainly shamanistic. However, when it came to explain ‘’what I am’’ the witches and shamans pointed to each other - neither practitioner group would claim me wholly. Both groups told me that I am as much unlike their own kind as I am like them. So I chose “WitchAndShaman” to represent that partial yet incomplete plurality.