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Maleficent 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 . Maleficent was animated by Marc Davis . She is voiced by Eleanor Audley , who earlier voiced Lady Tremaine , Cinderella's evil stepmother, in Cinderella (1950). When Sleeping Beauty was released in 1959, the film was both a critical and a commercial failure, discouraging the studio from adapting fairy tales into animated f...

Sleeping Beauty Castle (originally known as Snow White's Castle) is a fairy tale castle at the center of Disneyland and formerly (being redesigned as of 2018) at Hong Kong Disneyland . It is based on the late-19th century Neuschwanstein Castle in Bavaria, German. It appears in the Walt Disney Pictures title card , and, along with Cinderella Castle , is an iconic symbol of The Walt Disney Company . It is the only Disney castle whose construction was overseen by Walt Disney . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeping_Beauty_Castle -------------------------------- Sleeping Beauty  is a 1959 American animated  musical   fantasy film  produced by  Walt Disney  based on  The Sleeping Beauty  by  Charles Perrault . The 16th  Disney animated feature film , it was released to theaters on January 29, 1959, by  Buena Vista Distribution . This was the last Disney adaptation of a fairy tale for some years because of its initial m...

Sleeping Beauty Castle is a fairy tale castle at the center of Disneyland and Hong Kong Disneyland. It is based on the late-19th century Neuschwanstein Castle in Bavaria, Germany. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeping_Beauty_Castle -------------------------------- Paper craft  is the collection of  art  forms employing  paper  or  card  as the primary  artistic medium  for the creation of three-dimensional objects. It is the most widely used material in arts and crafts. It lends itself to a wide range of techniques, as it can for instance be folded, cut, glued, molded, stitched, or layered.  Papermaking  by hand is also an important paper craft.  Painting  and  calligraphy  though they are commonly applied as decoration are normally considered as separate arts or crafts. Paper crafts are known in most societies that use paper, with certain kinds of crafts being particularly associated with speci...