Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25536775-20170510235618/@comment-26411416-20170513085800

DracoWombat wrote: The doormouse wrote: I thought the Black fairy cast 'The BLACK Curse', not 'the DARK curse', which was the curse cast by Regina at the start of it all.

Surely there is a difference? Maybe she didn't need a heart for this as it is a different spell?

Think of it like cookery. You tell your friends 'I am going to make a try of flapjack' then later appear with a tray of cupcakes. Different recipes have brought different results, with different names.

Do you have any evidence? The show itself provides the evidence.

The original DARK curse was a recipe written onto a scroll. This required the ingredient of a heart and was eventually cast by Regina, as Rumple groomed her to do so in his pursuit of Baelfire.

Watch again all discussions on the show concerning the Black Fairy's curse. Not once is it referred to as 'the DARK curse', always as ' the Black Curse'.

Different curse, different ingredients.