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RedScharlach
Since: Jul, 2016

So I remember watching this cartoon short as a kid. It seemed to have an Asian setting and Asian looking characters. It didn't have a big-eyes sort of anime look to it, though.
What I remember most are parts of the plot. Three kids (two boys and one girl) are standing before an old man with a scroll. He throws it up in the air and the little girl catches it.
Later, I remember two thieves coming into a witch's house. She feeds them 'pancakes' and they turn into donkeys.
And then even later, the old man, the two boys, and the little girl show up at the same house to rest. The witch ends up tying them up and tries to force feed them the pancakes.
It ends up that the two thieves get turned back into humans and the witch gets turned into a green donkey herself.
That's all I remember.