| Once upon a time there was a good old witch who had two kids, one girl and one boy. She lived with her husband and her kids in the south of Chile. |
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Nobody knew in her family that she was a witch. Every night she went into the kitchen to do the magic. She put magic creams on her and she turned into many different animals. Her favorite animal was the black sheep. Then she would run outside in the fields and play all night. She would come back just before morning and turn into the mother again and nobody even knew that she left. |
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But. . . One night the kids woke up and went down to the kitchen looking for their mom. They didn't find her, but they saw the creams and started playing with them. They turned into all kinds of animals. First it was a pig, then a canary, then a chicken, then a butterfly. But when they wanted to become children again, they couldn't and they began to cry. They cried so loud that the father woke up. He went down the kitchen and found a pig and an ostrich swimming in tears. |
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He tried all the creams on the children and every time they turned into different animals. Finally he found a red cream behind a shelf that turned the kids back into children. Then he took all the creams and threw them into the river. |
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When the black sheep went back home, she was scared because she couldn't find her creams. She looked everywhere except in the bottom of the river where the fish were playing with the colored jars. She was sad that by playing with her magic, she lost her family. She returned to her house every night to look at her kids and her husband. |
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