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Regina cast the Dark Curse to transport everyone, from the Enchanted Forest, to the Land Without Magic. Peter Pan's plan, was just to freeze time, to create a New Neverland. Cora's protection spell would have been useless, this time. All she essentially did, was put everyone in her vicinity to sleep.