With Wicked hitting screens this week, it is time to look at the greatest witches to cast a spell on audiences ... but the original Maleficent in 1959’s Sleeping Beauty. Voiced by Eleanor ...

This suggests she was wronged in the past, and not as unjustifiably evil as she seemed in 1959's Sleeping Beauty. And Maleficent's isn't the first villainous origin story we've seen of late.