Gaetana Smurfette (Empath stories)

Gaetana is a Smurf character who is part of the EMPATH: The Luckiest Smurf story series. She is the wife of Bompastore and the mother of Biscotti and Gelato Smurf, who works in the kitchen along with her husband and their fellow Smurf Baker helping to cook meals for their fellow Smurfs.

About 50 years later, she along with her husband succumbed to the same unknown disease that claimed the lives of all their fellow Smurfs except for Papa Smurf. Biscotti and Gelato were then left in the care of Papa Smurf along with 96 other young Smurfs his age.

Years later, during the events in the story "Days Of Auld Lang Smurf", Gaetana supposedly came back from the dead to meet her grown-up sons. However, Smurfette, Polaris Psyche, and the Smurflings discover and reveal the truth that the "resurrected" Gaetana was just an illusion created by the Auld Lang Syne Spell that the evil witch, Chlorhydris, had cast upon the Smurfs.

The character is named after Vic George's friend Gaetano Bompastore, with Gaetana being the feminine form of Gaetano.