a tendency to evil believed by some to be innate in humankind and transmitted from Adam to the race in consequence of his sin
キリスト教で,人間が生まれながら負わされているという罪 - EDR日英対訳辞書
The anecdotes were predominantly broken down into the 3 categories including: a good deed was rewarded by a favorable compensation, someone suffered the consequence of their evil deed or the both but there are some anecdotes concerning monstrosities with no direct relation to good or evil.
説話の大部分は善をなして良い報いを受けた話、悪をなして悪い報いを受けた話のいずれか、あるいはその両方だが、一部には善悪と直接かかわりない怪異を記した話もある。 - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス
Those in whose eyes this reticence on the part of heretics is no evil, should consider in the first place, that in consequence of it there is never any fair and thorough discussion of heretical opinions;
異端派のこういう遠慮がまるで無害だと見ている人たちは、まず第一に、その結果、異端的意見についての公平で徹底的な議論が行われなくなり、 - John Stuart Mill『自由について』