Wicked fairy (Sleeping Beauty)

Within the Sleeping Beauty tale-cycle the Wicked fairy is a stock narrative actor rather than a figure with a single mythic origin; sources identify the entity as the antagonist of Sleeping Beauty and classify it as a folkloristic character. Wikidata lists the subject under a folkloristic character entry, and retellings and adaptations (including those that name her Carabosse or Maleficent) repeatedly position her as the agent who initiates the tale’s central crisis by bringing harm to the heroine.

The supplied sources do not provide a consistent or detailed physical description of the Wicked fairy. She is primarily identified by role (the malign fairy who opposes the heroine) and by the names used in adaptations (for example, Carabosse and Disney’s Maleficent); specific, source-attested visual details of costume, features, or form are not recorded in the provided materials.

In the sources the Wicked fairy’s documented function is narrative: she is the antagonist of Sleeping Beauty and, in that capacity, causes the heroine’s misfortune (for example, through a curse in many tale variants as implied by her role as antagonist). Adaptations carry this function forward — Wikipedia cites Maleficent as the most notable adaptation of the character, appearing across Disney media beginning with the 1959 film — but the provided materials do not enumerate discrete supernatural powers, rituals, or mechanisms beyond her status as the tale’s source of harm.