Once there was a witch lived in a far village. She occupied a big house in the outskirts of the village and lived alone in it. Her house was full of mirrors fixed onto every wall of the house. She was very beautiful and used to see her in the mirrors all the day. Because of her beauty people of the village were keen to visit her and that way she made many friends and was happy with her life. With the time she started feeling proud for being so beautiful and being liked by everyone. And hence she ended up turning arrogant and rude over the noble villagers. But she was genuinely a good being. No one could dare to offend her and everyone was afraid of her witchcraft.
In this state of situation on day, when she offended a pious man of the village, she was cursed by that pious man. After few days she got her face diseased with a mysterious malady. And she turned ugly. When she looked herself in the mirror she broke the mirror in anger. Then she broke every mirror in her house because she couldn't tolerate her ugliness.
With the time she started losing her visitors and people didn't find her worth meeting. She used to banish everyone with the witchcraft whoever remarked upon her ugliness. She couldn't go and live in the village, for that she wasn't the same person like them. She was a witch. In the end she was left alone with sorrow and the broken mirrors in her big house.
One day an old woman came upon her house. She knocked the door. The witch opened, to find a lady of short stature. The old woman said to her that she can help her give anything she wants but in return she wants a thing that she cared the most. The witch became confused, in her bewilderment she couldn't answer the old woman. When asked, she told her that she cant, because what she wants is what she cared the most. Her beauty.
The old lady said, "Its beauty that you want but its not beauty that you care the most. Its your vanity. Give me your vanity and arrogance and You will have your beauty back. You sacrificed everything for it and got yourself alone and sad." The witch realized at once. And promised never to be arrogant from the day. The lady cast a spell and murmured few words and gave her beauty back and went away.
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