Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-5934324-20130325011804/@comment-5715047-20130429180641

Mutewitch wrote: I'm with the second theory too. Remember, centuries ago, there were people dedicated to hunt down and kill "magical" beings. Witches were the most famous, but those hunters would also prosecute everything that was "unholy", that is, far from God's plans. So, people with epileptic episodes would be hunt as possessed people, and those born with physical differences were also estranged, and even killed. In the middle ages, a person with facial hair problems would be named and catalogued as a werewolf. That's where bestiaries come in. That's where "witch hunter books" come from. The use of the word "unholy" comes from the protection those hunts received by Catholic Church. - End of historic theory.

Well it was mentioned in Skin Deep when Regina lied to Gold about how the clerics came in and tried to purify or tortured Belle. Maybe the people who Greg and Tamara work for are related to them for some reason. Mind you I am not sure or have any idea if this is the reason.

At the same time it makes sense there is some sort organization against or studying magic. Since if this is the land without magic there has to be a reason for it.