Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25192098-20140803033043/@comment-6175354-20140814022654

Oz Scarecrow wrote: But if you remember from Season Two, Cora told Aurora that there was a place which the souls travel once their gone, and there would still be a way for Aurora to bring Philip back from the dead! Now, Cora was speaking of having your soul being taken by a wraith, but if the theory is true and it works on all deaths, then all of the villains, which I previously named, could come back from the dead and hurt those around them!! It was heavily implied, that Cora was just referring to the Netherworld. Both Mr. Gold and Mulan said, the soul-sucking is a fate worse than death. Hence, the victim is not dead. What happened to Prince Phillip, seems to be the precursor to the sleeping curse. Aurora hinted that she encountered Phillip's soul, in her Netherwold dreams. My guess is she either gave him a True Love's Kiss, or destroyed the medallion and "killed" the wraith.