Beaucoup de ces points pourraient aussi s'appliquer à toute personne [«kin» ou autre] engagée dans la magie ou le paganisme. Votre expérience peut différer. Repérez les «*» pour ce qu'Eshari considère, en son humble opinion, comme «comptant» le plus puisque étant le moins explicable.

Caractéristiques physiques et vestiges de corps/vies antérieures

1. * Vous vous sentez plus vieux que votre grand-mère et ne pouvez expliquer pourquoi. *
2. * Un lieu vous manque, pourtant vous ne savez pas où il se situe.. *
3. Vous trouvez très frustrant de ne pas pouvoir respirer sous l'eau ou de ne pas pouvoir voler.
4. * Vous avez des membres «fantômes» que vous pouvez sentir bouger et qui deviennent parfois très ennuyant avec les vêtement (fourrure, ailes, griffes...). *
5. Vous modifiez vos vêtements (ou portez des vêtement spéciaux) ou vous marchez, vous asseyez/tenez de façon à vous adapter à des caractéristiques physiques que votre corps physique n'a pas - ou vous ne réalisez même pas que vous faites de tels modifications jusqu'à ce que quelqu'un vous le fasse remarquer.
6. * De temps en temps vous passer une TRES mauvaise nuit parce que vous avez dormi de travers sur vos ailes. *
7. Votre docteur n'arrive pas à comprendre comment vous-vous êtes abîmé le dos mais vous ne voulez pas vraiment lui dire qu'il s'agit d'une blessure de guerre datant d'une vie antérieure.
8. Vous avez cette démangeaisons occasionnelle vraiment ennuyante dans le dos, juste à l'endroit où devraient être vos ailes.
9. * Les transsexuels veulent souvent une opération pour changer de sexe. Vous voulez une opération pour changer d'ESPECE. *
10. Vous êtes toujours le premier à entendre quelque chose au loin (une voiture approchant, une personne, un orage, ...).
11. * Vous avez soit plus d'allergie que la normale, éventuellement des allergies bizarres, comme au métal (fer et alliages, argent, or, cuivre), aux pierres (hématite, malachite, pyrite), à certaines herbes, ou à d'autres substances peu allergéniques habituellement; soit vous avez une constitution de dragon et avez moins d'allergies que la plupart des gens et êtes moins sensible aux maladies (vous n'avez jamais eu la grippe, etc.) *
12. Vous avez des pupilles naturellement dilatées ou voyez très bien dans l'obscurité.
13. Vous avez des yeux vert ou violet vif ou des yeux aux couleurs multiples ou des yeux qui changent de couleurs.
14. * Une partie de votre corps change de forme et/ou de couleur. *
15. Vous avez l'air radicalement différent d'un jour à l'autre.
16. * Le «vous» que vous voyez dans le miroir et le corps perçu par les autres sont deux êtres complètement différents. *
17. Vous répugnez à choisir un sexe et vous souhaiteriez sincèrement être des deux sexes ou alors d'aucun.
18. Vous êtes incapable de devenir dépendant à quoi que ce soit - après un certain point, certaines substances cessent complètement de vous affecter. Ce qui est vraiment très ennuyant lorsqu'il s'agit d'un médicament indispensable.

B. Personality Characteristics, Perceptions and Habits

1. * You don't consider yourself really human. *
2. Your creativity (of whatever persuasion) consumes you to the point of eccentricity.
3. You know, see, and feel a deeper depth of existence than the visible world around us.
4. * The woods, glens, etc. speak to you and call you to come join them. *
5. You have a deeper understanding and viewpoint of the cycle of life and death than many people do.
6. * Most people find their inner children. You found your inner puppy or hatchling. *
7. You remember your dreams with more detail, clarity and relevance than your waking moments.
8. * Dance, music, art, beauty are not luxuries, peripheral experiences or mere entertainment, but physical needs. *
9. Linear thought is a problem, and linear time an even greater one.
10. * The books that speak the greatest Truths to you are found in the Fantasy/SF section. *
11. * Your best friends are nymphs, pixies, and fairies. *
12. You think trees or holes in the ground are a great places to live.
13. * You catch yourself referring to David Bowie as "cousin." *
14. You find it hard to explain to mundanes that there really IS a dragon sitting on your pencil case and she's been talking to you all through math and English.
15. You can sleep on the floor, ground or a wood bed, but not a metal frame bed.
16. You collect little 'oddities' that don't match anything else you own. Going to an antique store is like going to an adoption agency. You actually own more knick-knacks and stuff than the antique store down the street.
17. * No religion seems to fit you, no matter which one you try. *
18. You are the definition of "weird".
19. You love to hide in natural places when emotionally or otherwise upset.
20. * You can actually speak Tolkien Elvish, and it feels like your mother tongue. *
21. * You don't match your "real" age in looks, thoughts, words, wisdom, etc. *
22. The weather and your moods have more than a coincidental link.
23. You write such good stories cause they aren't stories... it's all real.
24. You feel you'd have done much better a few hundred years back. Living History not only describes your favorite activity, it describes you.
25. You have an obesession with honor most people just don't understand.
26. You've been in or almost caused a car accident because you were distracted by the sunset, sunrise, rainbow, moon, stars, lightning, and/or interesting cloud formations.
27. You bore very easily.
28. You get downright pissed when people harm animals or plants or destroy the environment.
29. As a child you always knew where to find the berries in the woods.
30. You are fascinated with language, linguistics, theology, anthropology, slang, subculture and the madness of crowds.
31. Weddings make you depressed and funerals elate you.
32. You see through spiritual charlatans like they were made of glass.
33. Your personality changes outright depending on the clothing you wear. That includes a mixed personality if you mix two kinds of clothing.
34. * You always go for things in silver rather than gold, bronze, etc. *

C. Interactions With the "Mundanes"

1. * Human language just isn't enough to FULLY convey what you are trying to say. You feel telepathy, empathy, and visual sendings make up most of your languge and you often tend to use these more than spoken words, much to the dismay of those around you. *
2. Your friends and family have always thought of you as "different".
3. You never quite see things from the same point of view as your mundane friends.
4. Your mundane friends never quite get your sense of humor.
5. Mundanes think you are eccentric, very intelligent or crazy, but you think that you are normal and they are the ones who are odd.
6. * You have actually answered elf, dragon, fae, pixie, werewolf, etc. under the "Race" section of surveys or when asked by telemarketers. *
7. You are frequently offered "Santa's Helper" jobs at Christmas without an interview.
8. Your friend's cat, who hates EVERYONE including your friend, loves you.
9. People either love you or hate you and you cannot figure out why.
10. Animals and trees are better friends to you than most mundanes.
11. * You feel horrible if you have to act human, and weird things happen to you when you try. *
12. * When you haven't slept for a few nights running, haven't eaten, don't feel pain, etc., the standard explanation from your friends is "but we all know you're not human..."
             ...before you've even told them what you really are. *
13. You attract the strangest people. They seem to congregate around you as if attracted by some pheremone only they can perceive.
14. You almost never play a human character in role-playing games. (Bonus points if you refuse to play a human in the SCA, but rather play a vampire, elf or faerie.)
15. People's professed personalities and beliefs cause you to break out in peals of laughter at socially inappropriate times.
16. People often ask you if you are on drugs.
17. * Hospitals, most schools, government buildings, and large, impersonal corporations either depress you to the point of tears or trigger panic attacks. *
18. * Small children come up to you and hug you for no apparent reason. *

D. Magic, Psi and Strange Occurrences

1. You think nothing of adjusting your energy to a Peace signature to calm down someone who's agitated. (Fun with glamour, folks!)
2. When you don't want to be noticed, you can be wearing three-inch spikes and a mohawk, and people walk past you, oblivious.
3. Your dreams bleed over into mundane reality.
4. * You catch glimpses of an alternate reality superimposed or side-by-side with mundane reality. When you're half asleep and half awake, the worlds tend to blur and you can see numerous realities existing at once. *
5. Your wishes affect mundane reality in a tangible way.
6. There are too many synchronicities happening to pass them all off as coincidence.
7. Small children run up to you and point out the nice lady with pointy ears or the big furry man or the dragon.
8. * Grown people run up to you and nervously ask you if you've ever thought of yourself as "elf-like" or "dragon-like," or just get positively freaked out being near you.
9. You start "bleeding over" in pictures. *
10. You dream prophetically.
11. * When really stressed/relaxed/magickal you speak in a foreign unknown language, make animal noises, or start speaking in what sounds like gibberish to other people. *
12. People are spooked when you walked up behind them and they never heard you coming. You move so silently that you can even sneak up on a police dog without it noticing you.
13. Energy work seems so natural for you that even as a beginner you baffle most veteran magic users.
14. You've met someone you instantly knew from dreams you've been having since you were five.
15. From time to time really strange things happen, like you get cut and your blood falls on a white rose and it turns red, and within a month the entire rose bush has deep red flowers.
16. You sense spirits residing within rocks, trees, waters, buildings, mechanical objects, etc., and you converse with them regularly.
17. You didn't know that not everyone did lucid dreaming (astral projection, hands-on healing, aura sight, telepathy, precognition...) until you read about it.
18. * You "smell" what kind of mood the people around you are in. *
19. Computers often malfunction, act up, and do lots of unusual things in your presence, causing your coworkers to ask you to "stand over there, please" and causing your company's resident computer tech many hours of heartache.
20. Sometimes when you see or meet a stranger you see a flash of their True Nature without even trying.
21. You can alter time, manipulate the weather, conjure things or teleport by accident, etc. without ever having learned how nor understanding how these are possible.
22. * When they unearth an ancient earth artifact that "no one" knows about you not only find that you recognize it, but also that you had been telling your friends about it for the last few years. *
23. Energy is one of your favorite toys.
24. You don't just dream, you go planet-hopping.
25. Time always does weird things around you.
26. Your friends use you as the resident antenna for the radio, for it always receives better sound when you stand in front of it.
27. You cannot wear watches or other timepieces on your person. If you do, they are rendered completely useless within days and become blithering idiots that have no idea what time it really is anymore.
28. You can hear the stars singing.
29. You can't understand why people need all those props to do anything magical, when it's so much simpler to just reach and change something. You're unable to grasp that there are people who can't feel magical flows, no matter how often you hear otherwise.
30. * All of your best friends/lovers/etc. awaken to their Otherkin natures within a few months of meeting you. *
31. You can't ever remember the color of someone's eyes, but you can describe their aura/astral form in detail.

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Versions

Version 1.0 3/9/99 if it's useless and does nothing, call it version 1.0!
Version 1.1 3/15/99 added some from Adara and deleted a few
Version 1.2 3/20/99 added some from Thistle and made other various changes
Version 1.21 3/26/99 fixed some odd formatting
Version 1.22 11/3/99 added one to section A and *-ed those that are, in the editor's humble opinion, "more telling" than others
Version 1.3 11/15/99 added a few new contributions
Version 1.4 9/17/00 HTML markup added
Version 2.0 01/28/01 deleted some that are overly silly, irrelevant, misleading, in-joke-ish or incomprehensible, edited others to be clearer, and generally tried to bring it up to more "public consumption" standards

Credits

Eshari Starling edited and spell-checked this thing and organized it and stuck it all together.
The following people, in no particular order, have offered up their souls to help compose this list: Adara, Thistle Kachunk, Willow, Miracle, Lindsay, Ruadh, Fer, Aine, Illuviel, Jen/Blue/Spirati, Ki'taye and hir sidekick, Lelya, Kerr/Robin, Aerienne, Skiewing, the Lollipop Trollop, and Eshari.
Kerr/Robin's were ripped from the ancient and musty TNO archives without them knowing it, but Esh figures those people will never see this anyway. :)