Maleficent vs. Beneficent — What's the Difference?

Maleficent ( or ) is a fictional character who appears in Walt Disney Productions' 16th animated feature film, Sleeping Beauty (1959). She is represented as an evil fairy and the self-proclaimed "Mistress of All Evil" who, after not being invited to a christening, curses the infant Princess Aurora to "prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and die" before the sun sets on Aurora's sixteenth birthday.Maleficent is based on the evil fairy godmother character in Charles Perrault's fairy tale Sleeping Beauty, as well as the villainess who appears in the Brothers Grimm's retelling of the story, Little Briar Rose.

Characterized by or performing acts of kindness or charity.

Causing harm or destruction, especially by supernatural means

Producing benefit; beneficial.

Harmful or malicious in intent or effect.

Given to acts that are kind, charitable, philanthropic or beneficial.

Harmful or evil in intent or effect.

Doing or producing good; performing acts of kindness and charity; characterized by beneficence.

Doing evil to others; harmful; mischievous.

Doing or producing good;

Harmful or evil in intent or effect

Doing or producing good

Generous in assistance to the poor;