Mika Burgess was born in 1890 under the rule of King Edward VII. Since his death, she has moved in and out of the United Kingdom. She currently lives in Gurinchem, Holland, in a land of mostly atheists.

Days before Titanic’s maiden voyage, Mika bought a second-class ticket to America. Hours before the ship left Southhampton, she was mugged; the only thing left was a small stained glass picture hidden in her coat.

Mika has always said her most prominent role model was British occultist and ceremonial magician Violet Mary Firth, with whom the Pagen philosophies originated. She hides that her actual role model is the old bookshop owner, Mr. Isaac Mullens, from Norwich, where she grew up. He was assumed to have lived for 200 years, but no one would believe her when she told them.

Mika’s neighbors think she works for the government, as her house is the only one on her street with curtains on all her windows and a fenced-in backyard. She’s actually a ghostwriter for a popular novel series with award-winning movies based on her books, giving her plenty of time for her witch matters.

Every month, the day before the full moon, Mika drives 7 hours to hike up the Swiss Alps to collect water from its streams. However, as her body is slowly deteriorating, for the past 20 years, she has substituted this with bottled water sold in the town of Zurich, north of the Swiss Alps. She tricks herself into believing it’s the same, but she has noticed the effects of her magic are not as strong as from the source.

For 50 years, she’s had an irrational fear of religion, mainly Christianity, which is one reason she justified not being able to board the Titanic to America. She told people it’s from generational trauma due to her “great great great grandparents” being burned at the stake. But, when she was a child, her father brought her to a church, where the pastor yelled for an hour about how sinful people will receive “God’s Wrath,” the entire room screaming “amen” and speaking in tongues. Now, she enters a cathedral once every couple of months to confess her sins and switch their Holy Water with Moon Water. She never says her “Hail Mary’s.”

The Apothecary is a separate room in her house strictly used to grow herbs and other plants, including marijuana. She uses hints of cush in her cooking to enhance the flavor and the spell baked in it.

Throughout her life, Mika has been a student at four high schools and attended college twice–Cambridge in 1956 and Swansea University in 2004. She graduated with a BA in English Literature with Creative Writing. Though, no one seems to believe she attended any school before 1998.

At age 134, Mika fears her life is near its end and will succumb to the same fate as Mr. Mullens–assumed to have died from leprosy.

During the German bombing of Rotterdam in 1940, Mika planned to evacuate to England, but she was forced to hide in a bomb shelter after a Dutch soldier found her and a group of women trying to make a run for it. She watched her friend die that day.

Mika has had 187 lovers, five long-term boyfriends, and three fiancees. Her last fiance was during college in 2005, when she ran out of her wedding after the fiance’s ex confessed their love affair as the vows were being said. The amount of lovers has rapidly increased since then.

Mika has only met six magical witches, including her dad and Mr. Mullens, and knows several modern witches. However, she suspects her chatty neighbor is a magical witch because she appears out of nowhere and likes the smell of her enchanted Shasta Daisy made to repel people.

On June 3rd, 2023, Mika attended the Nationaal Heksenmonument, a ritual of commemoration for 50 Dutch witches who were burnt, strangled, and tortured during the witch craze in 1595. She placed flowers in various locations in the Netherlands–a very special white lily placed in Peelland for her grandmother, Judth van Dorren. She met many Dutch witches and pagans there, including her now-best friend, Marion de Boer, who practices as a cosmic witch in Haarlem.

Mika has stated how technology has come too far. She refuses to add more fixtures and an “Alexa,” claiming she likes how things have always been. Marion calls her “old school,” even mentioning, “It’s like you woke up from living in the 1800s.” Mika laughs nervously at these comments and goes to a tech store to buy a giant flat-screen TV and a Google Home to appease Marion and others who stumble into her home. However, she doesn’t know how to use either of them.

More information to come as her story unravels.