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I don't think people can blame Eva for 'causing' Cora to become evil. Rather blame Cora for becoming what she became. Eva may have been a bully in her youth, but she honestly matured. Johanna loved her, and Eva wasn't annoyed, as Snow, that Johanna tried that tiara. Back to Cora, I hate it when people blame it on others. That Milah was the reason Rumple became evil, or I don't know.

Anyway I like that theory, that she wished for a daughter. But I don't think the price was spending ten years, and then die. That's way too dark for faeries (except dark faeries). Maybe she had to raising Snow to become a kind woman, or something like that.