Arun tales

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The Boy and the Witch

2090 

This was an Arun fairytale where a boy had to go out and work to bring money for his family. One day, he is robbed by a Beziezian, and when he comes home, his 
mom is enraged at him "You fool! You let yourself  be robbed [by a Betch]. Now we can't eat tonight! You are banished from this house". Sad, blue, and not knowing what to do, an old woman steps out from an alley way and makes him an offer "I will give you gold, but you need to find me some rare ingredients for my spells!" the boy dismisses the old woman as somebody senile, until he sees a flash behind him, like a lightning strike only there wasn't a cloud in the sky.


 (the boy got greedier and greedier, taking on bigger and increasingly difficult risks to the point the last one almost killed him and he did not get the ingredient that the witch demanded from him. and when he could not repay his debt, his entire life crumbles rapidly. His mother ages rapidly, becoming whithered and old, his house burns down, he becomes nearly blind and crippled and he must beg in the street for the rest of his life)

..in the more anti-beziezian version, he had been forced into a Beziezian identity, being spat on and cursed in the street, and the Beziezian who robbed him was turned into a prosperous Arun. The witch did this to further spite the boy.

(modern retellings either leave out the Beziezian parts entirely, or turn the Beziezian into a school bully, or some other generic villianous figure)