Maleficent is assigned a charge, a young Snow White, and has to protect the young princess from her stepmother. The next day, Maleficent's sixteenth birthday, the fairy exams are held. Nanny is hesitant but allows Maleficent to take the test. Maleficent expresses to Nanny her desire to take the fairy exam and become a wish-granting fairy.
Maleficent then learns more forms of dark magic at home from various old books provided by Nanny and the Odd Sisters. Eventually, Nanny realizes that Maleficent's potential for magic is far too great for the Academy and pulls her out of the school. She also introduces Maleficent to her good friends, three odd sisters named Lucinda, Ruby, and Martha, witches who perform very dark magic and are notorious for ruining people's lives. Nanny realizes that Maleficent has a lot of potential and allows her to study forms of magic that were not taught at the Academy. Maleficent's adoptive aunt and teacher, the Fairy Godmother, also dislikes her and feels that Maleficent is evil and Nanny should have just left her in the tree. She is always the target of ridicule and scorn from three of her classmates, Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather. Due to her horns and her odd appearance, Maleficent is an outcast at the Fairy Academy. As Maleficent grows up, Nanny sees that the young fairy is exceptionally skilled in magic, and enrolls Maleficent in the Fairy Academy, of which Nanny is the headmistress. Nanny decides to take Maleficent home and raise her as her daughter. A fairy (nicknamed "Nanny") discovers Maleficent in the tree and is shocked at her abandonment.
The plot of the book jumps back and forth in time, recounting moments in Maleficent's childhood and teen years, her years before cursing Aurora, and the days after Aurora falls into her cursed slumber.Īs a very small child, Maleficent was living in a tree in the Fairylands, being raised by crows. It is a tale of the Mistress of All Evil." It is a tale of love and betrayal, of magic and reveries. Here is one account, pulled down from the many passed down through the ages. So what of the dark fairy, Maleficent? Why does she curse the innocent princess? What led to her becoming so filled with malice, anger and hatred? Many tales have tried to explain her motives. But the power of good endures, as her true love defeats the fire-breathing dragon and awakens the princess with true love's first kiss. Though her three good fairies try to protect her, the princess succumbs to the curse. But always the maiden finds out that she is a princess-a princess who has been cursed by a dark fairy to prick her finger on a spindle and fall into an eternal sleep. The story has been told many times, and in many ways. "The tale is told as if it's happening once upon a dream: the lovely maiden meets her handsome prince in the woods.
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