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Today, the most prominent association with the word is the Disney character . This character reimagines the traditional "evil fairy" as a complex figure defined by trauma and eventual redemption.

: During the plague eras of the 14th to 17th centuries, the spread of disease was sometimes poetically or superstitiously linked to "maleficent" influences or "miasma". Malefica in Modern Culture

: In early modern Europe, the term was frequently used in legal documents and inquisitorial trials to classify practitioners of harmful magic.

: The 2014 film Maleficent shifted the perspective from Sleeping Beauty to the villain herself.

Differential word expression analyses highlight plague ... - PMC