Vintage 1968 4” toy figure “Maleficent” from Disney Sleeping Beauty. Highly collectible and hard to acquire.
Maleficent is a fictional character who first appears in Walt Disney Productions' animated film, Sleeping Beauty (1959). Maleficent is a malevolent fairy and the self-proclaimed "Mistress of All Evil", she is an incarnation of pure evil and is responsible for all the misfortune in King Stefan's kingdom. Taking offense at not being invited to the christening of Princess Aurora by Stefan and his wife, Queen Leah, Maleficent curses the princess to "prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and die" before the sun sets on Aurora's sixteenth birthday.[3] Maleficent is based on the Wicked fairy godmother character in Charles Perrault's fairy tale Sleeping Beauty