1. Carl Barks drew inspiration for the world's richest duck's archvillainess from a tight-knit bevy of brunette beauties: Sophia Loren, Maleficent (of Sleeping Beauty fame) and Morticia, the Addams family matriarch.

2. Despite her misleading moniker, Magica DeSpell didn't initially possess magical powers. In his article "Why does Magica DeSpell want Scrooge's Dime?," artist Don Rosa asserts that the dastardly duckling has been portrayed as "a normal person who uses her knowledge of ancient languages and alchemy to utilize magical 'tools' she discovers or... buys." Among these tools is a zap ray, powered by batteries, she conceals beneath a sleeve.

3. The evil duck enchantress owns not one, but two lairs. One is a villa on the slopes of Mt. Vesuvius, the other a more quaint cottage located in central Ducksburg (as is evidenced in the story, "Isle of Golden Geese").

4. While in comics Magica's pet raven is called Ratface, her raven in the animated series, Ducktales, is actually a transformed manifestation of her brother Poe DeSpell.

5. Magica was once the proud and legitimate owner of Scrooge McDuck's first dime, and though it never yielded her the wealth she assumed it would during its brief time in her possession, she continued to doggedly pursue it long after Scrooge got it back.

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