In the bawdy satire “The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel,” a collection of stories detailing the chivalric exploits of a giant and his son, Gargamelle was Gargantua’s mother. The name Gargamel comes from a work by 16th-century French writer François Rabelais. The recipe for a Smurfette is as follows: “Sugar and spice but nothing nice a dram of crocodile tears peck of bird brain the tip of an adder’s tongue half a pack of lies, white, of course the slyness of a cat the vanity of a peacock the chatter of a magpie the guile of a vixen and the disposition of a shrew and of course the hardest stone for her heart.”
In the comics, Smurfette was created by Gargamel as part of a plot to breed jealousy and discord among the little blue gnomes. There were originally only 99 Smurfs, but that number has increased to allow for new characters, including the only female Smurfs: Smurfette, Sassette and Nanny Smurf. Because of those associations, the Phrygian cap was banned in France for a period during the 19th century. The red Phrygian cap - like the one worn by Papa Smurf - was specifically a symbol of the French Revolution, and during the Reign of Terror, it was used to denote adherence to the violent new regime. In ancient Rome, it came to signify freedom due to its resemblance with the pileus, a felt cap worn by emancipated slaves. The Smurfs’ favorite headgear is known as a Phrygian cap. In the cartoon’s sixth season, Grandpa Smurf returned from a 500-year-long journey around the world.
Smurfs are said to be only three apples high, but they can live for hundreds of years. The Smurf Song, created by Pierre Kartner, topped the music charts in 16 countries.
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“Smurf” is the Dutch translation of “schtroumpf.”Īlong with comics, TV and movies, the Smurfs have spawned their own video games, theme park attractions, Ice Capades show, breakfast cereal, ‘80s dance craze and a perplexingly grim advertisement for UNICEF in which the Smurf village gets blown sky high by enemy warplanes. The word “schtroumpf” came from a dinner conversation where Culliford momentarily forgot the word for salt, so he made one up and asked his friend to pass the “schtroumpf.” Called “Les Schtroumpfs” in his native French, they first appeared as side characters in the fantasy comic “The Flute with Six Holes” where they are shown living in a barren, rock-covered place known as the Cursed Land. The Smurfs were created by Belgian comic artist Peyo (a.k.a. So here are 20 little-known facts about the diminutive blue gnomes that might surprise even the smurfiest Smurfs fan. With the sequel to 2011’s “ The Smurfs 3D” skipping into theaters last week, Belgium’s second most famous export (after waffles, of course) is on a lot of people’s minds.
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