Board Thread:Off-Topic Fun/@comment-3127757-20130311172927/@comment-24936039-20140916165856

GothicNarcissus wrote: The Darlings were from our own world, as the magic bean took Baelfire to a Land Without Magic, while the writers confirmed Victorian England has magic (otherwise the White Rabbit could not travel there).

Not necessarily true that our world is without magic. Rather it's very rare (or imported so to speak by curses\portals - e.g. Story Brooke. Also the 'Dragon' character in Hong Kong that August visited in hopes of curing his reverting back into a puppet, And finally a flying Monkey in NYC). I suspect that Victoria England Land is similar to our world in that respect (Magic is imported\rare, aka shadow/Pan), just has a different tech tree then us - steam punk based.