I'm pretty sure Turox's explosions are variable, not just in size, but in power, which means so long as you get lucky (or unlucky) it doesn't need enchantments for its blast damage.
Wand of resurrection is best used as a chancey amulet of life saving. If you get hit by a blast strong enough to kill you, there's a good chance it'll break and revive you immediately.
The reason would have been because she was stuck in a web. Even weaker pets you could move without any problems normally can't be moved past when they're stuck. You should have backed out so she'd get free trying to reach you, then continued on your merry way.
Or maybe she wasn't stuck, I just reread the OP. If you're not strong enough to muscle past a pet, go back, find a branching path, then walk around them and take the lead.
Well, it's somewhere! I know because I'm the one who first discovered it. Also, I made a mistake. The peel is bigger, but somehow when you resurrect it it's a normal size banana.
Yep. It's already somewhere in this thread, but I don't blame you for not digging through 20 pages. It also works on a peel from a holy banana, but you'll just get a banana of a different size.