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It… It was dark magic. A candle that could restore your life by taking away someone else’s.

Snow White to Queen Eva src

The Enchanted Candle is a magical item featured on ABC's Once Upon a Time. It first appears in the fifteenth episode of the second season.


History

Before First Curse
Snow White's mother, Queen Eva, falls ill with a mysterious illness. Desperate to help her mother, she turns to magic. Johanna, a royal servant, tells Snow White of a secret of her mother's, the Blue Fairy. When Snow White goes into the woods, she has trouble finding her; suddenly she turns around to find this fairy behind her. The fairy tells her that although it is against the rules, she will give her a way to save her mother. She summons a candle and advises Snow to use it. There is a catch though: she tells her that to save a life, she must take one. Snow must whisper the name of the victim while placing the candle over them. The Blue Fairy also tells Snow White never to speak of it again. Although it could have been used, Snow White cannot bring herself to kill. She tells her mother about it, and Eva tells her daughter that she is proud of her for not taking a dark path. After speaking with her daughter, Eva dies. After all mourners of Eva's funeral leave the hall, Cora appears before the bier. She speaks to Eva, saying poison suits her, revealing she poisoned Eva to death. In actuality, the Blue Fairy who gave Snow White the choice to save her mother with the enchanted candle was Cora in disguise. ("The Queen Is Dead")

After First Curse
Fatally wounded by Hook, an injured Mr. Gold is sheltered aboard a ship during the journey home to Storybrooke. While he is resting in the pawnshop, Mary Margaret grabs a blanket for him and sees the candle. He pushes her to use it to kill Cora so they can both be rid of the same nemesis. Mr. Gold instructs Mary Margaret to find Cora's heart hidden in a vault and hold the candle while whispering her name over it. Lastly, the heart needs to be put back in Cora's chest. Mary Margaret ends up sneaking to the vault while David, Emma and Neal are busy battling Cora and Regina in the pawnshop. After candle incantation is enacted, Cora senses something wrong with her heart and urges Regina to check the vault. Mary Margaret deceives Regina into believing that Cora can only truly love if her heart is restored. Before Cora kills Mr. Gold, Regina rushes back to shove the heart into her mother's chest. For the first time, Cora feels genuine love for Regina, but dies in her daughter's arms as the candle curse overtakes her body. Regina accuses Mr. Gold of the wrongdoing until a remorseful Mary Margaret bursts in, shouting for her not to place the heart into Cora, as the mayor realizes who the true culprit is. ("The Miller's Daughter")

During Second Curse
Determined to discover what Cora did to her own first-born child, Zelena, Regina takes the candle from Mr. Gold's pawnshop and uses it to hold a seance hoping to contact her mother in the afterlife. A portal to the world of the dead does open, but nothing comes out; prompting Regina and her allies to believe Cora wants her secrets to remain unknown. Later, only Mary Margaret and Regina remain in the house when they hear something in an allegedly empty room. The two women open the door to reveal Cora's ghost, who briefly possesses Mary Margaret, revealing to her murderer the true circumstances of Zelena's abandonment. ("Bleeding Through")

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Appearances

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