She haunts the edge of the Roman forest. She whispers curses over lead tablets. She flies to the Sabbath on a goat’s back. And she will not be forgotten.
With the rise of Christianity, the perception of maleficium shifted dramatically. Church Fathers like Augustine of Hippo argued that all pagan magic was inherently demonic. However, the crucial legal turning point came with the and later the Justinian Code (529 CE) . These laws began to conflate malefica with apostasy. Malefica
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as a "cold-hearted fairy" and later reimagined as a complex anti-hero in the 2014 live-action film Maleficent strong female-led performances