Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-6175354-20140420035659/@comment-8345449-20140424062657

Stonicus wrote: Mewiet wrote:

Stonicus wrote: It's been said this new curse is the same curse as before... It's also been said a few times that the curse must be cast by a daughter of Cora... in keeping with the "rescue" theme of the second curse and that our good guys did it, then it *has* to be Regina, unless Cora has yet another unknown daughter. The first curse needed to be cast by Cora's daughter because that's what Rum saw when he got glimpses of the future. He just didn't realize she had two until much later on.

But we've been told it's the same curse and it follows the same rules. One of the rules was that it had to be cast by a daughter of Cora... unless, and this is likely, the writers have lied to us yet another time... =P

The rules the writers were referring to was that the price has to be the heart of the thing you love most and a hole is left afterwards in the caster' soul. It was Rumplestiltskin that foresaw his curse would eventually be cast by one of Cora's daughters. That is a prediction of who would eventually be willing to pay the price, not one of the rules of casting the curse.