Dark Jinn (Empath stories)

The Dark Jinn are evil ghostlike spirits that appear in the EMPATH: The Luckiest Smurf story "Smurfette's Genie". They exist primarily in a dark realm that can only be opened when two genies are in close proximity to each other in the same location. They wreak all sorts of havoc in "the realm of light" and seek to consume and destroy all that is in it in order to turn our world into one of complete darkness.

In "Smurfette's Genie," a rift opened up in the Smurf Village near Smurfette's house sometime after Smurfette had brought Ghinelle the genie into the village, releasing the Dark Jinn into our world. The Smurfs soon found themselves overwhelmed by these evil spirits and tried to fight them off to no avail, even with Empath's and Polaris' telekinetic powers being ineffective against them. With the help of both Ghinelle and Farmer's genie Gourdy, the two genies used their magic powers together to cause the Dark Jinn to be sucked back into their own realm and to seal the rift permanently. To prevent this from ever happening again, Papa Smurf cast upon Ghinelle and Gourdy magical silver bracelets that would disable their ability to use magic if they should ever use it against each other.