A gruesome detail about iron and faeries...
A gruesome detail about iron and faeries...
Though Maleficent is one of the first movies to show the traditional weakness of iron they got one significant detail wrong. When a faery is wounded with iron they have to heal as a mortal would. This also means any body part cut off with iron cannot magically re-attach as it would if cut off with another form of metal. In example: If you wanted to render a faery permanently unable to speak you simply cut out the tongue using an iron blade. The tongue can never re-attach.