Avengelica (Empath stories)

Avengelica was a female wraith that hated males of any race or species and sought to destroy them by any means possible. About 100 years prior to the present time in the EMPATH: The Luckiest Smurf story series, Avengelica had met Sassette when she ran out into the forest after years of constantly being tormented by her brother Hefty and offered the young Smurf her power so that she could get even with Hefty. To that end, Avengelica placed Sassette in a crystal where she would sleep while the magic inside the crystal would alter her so that she would be able to do the wraith's evil bidding. Almost 100 years later, Miner had dug out the crystal that contained the young Smurfling, and the other three Smurflings -- Nat, Snappy, and Slouchy -- used Papa Smurf's tuning fork to break the crystal. The breaking of the crystal, according to Avengelica's design, would not only make Sassette forget who she was, but it would also make the Smurfs present at the time of the crystal's breaking remember her as a magically-created Smurf similar to Smurfette instead of being a real female Smurf.

A few years later, though, Avengelica started to manipulate Sassette's emotions and physical features, causing her to turn against the male Smurfs who loved her, which included her fellow Smurflings as well as Empath, the only Smurf who was not affected by Avengelica's magical manipulations. Sassette eventually captured Hefty and took him to Avengelica's dark lair where she tormented him until the wraith got tired of it and now demanded that Sassette would kill Hefty. Empath along with Papa Smurf and Smurfette intervened and convinced Sassette that killing Hefty to get revenge wasn't the right thing to do, and thus Sassette turned against Avengelica. Papa Smurf eventually defeated Avengelica, causing her physical form to shatter and thus freeing Sassette from the wraith's control over her.