[You'd be the nicest fairy she's ever met, Toothiana. Doxies aren't... well, technically fairies, but they're close. And they're rude.]

Often enough. I've never fallen in. Gone swimming in it once, though.

[She may have been tipsy.]

As for the curses—well, magic, of course. If you believe in it, anyway. But I reckon that's what makes the most sense to me; how else could any of this be possible, right?