Well, the day before that, people were gingerbread on the inside, and others were eating them... It wasn't painful though, apparently...

[ Tyr is just going to keep the snowglobe between them. At least Gremio didn't arrive yesterday, when Tyr thought he could see people they would recognise walking around. ]

People are usually changed in some way. Either their appearance or their personality changes in some way... Some of the curses are like this and just have to do with objects, but it's not as common.