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I think we have to remember the the witches Gothel sought out were meant to be very powerful. I don't remeber, the part about the DO not being able break blood magic, but we've seen on the show before that witches combined magic are more powerful (e.g. Emma/Regina)

I could buy that the witches were able to cast the Dark Curse. We don't know what the ingredients they gave was, so it's possible, that essential items like the 'heart of the thing you love most' was used by one of them. I agree with RedCoat about the time travel aspect. Zelena's entire S3 arc was about trying to complete the spell, and the coven casually did it. If they used Zelena's blood for the time travel aspect, like they did with Regina's for the Dark Curse, maybe I could buy it.