First Word Ceremony

The First Word Ceremony is a special event that takes place usually after a baby Smurf's second birthday in the Smurfs cartoon show. In that event, the baby Smurf is placed on a mushroom in the center of the Blue Clearing in the Smurf Forest, and at midnight a moonbeam from the moon will strike the mushroom and the baby Smurf will utter his first word. That first word, according to Papa Smurf, gives the adult Smurf who listens to it a peek into what that child's future will be.

In the episode that the event takes place, "Baby's First Word", Baby Smurf uttered his first word which is "Gargamel". Papa Smurf ascertained from that that Baby Smurf will grow to be a great leader who will be able to recognize his enemies.

Empath: The Luckiest Smurf stories
Although in the EMPATH: The Luckiest Smurf story series Baby Smurf is actually much older than his physical age due to being a former resident of Smurfling Island, his "birthday" in the Smurf Village is usually considered the anniversary of his arrival in the Smurf Village following the Blue Moon Festival that foretold his arrival. Thus the First Word Ceremony did actually occur after Baby Smurf's second "birthday" in the Smurf Village, where it is likely that Baby Smurf's first word was "Gargamel". From the point of that First Word Ceremony, Baby Smurf began speaking other words under the tutelage of Papa Smurf.

Among Empath's generation of Smurfs that were born and raised in the Smurf Village, Empath and Wild were the only two Smurfs that did not participate in the First Word Ceremony, with Empath being brought to Psychelia while he was less than a year old and had presumably died, and Wild being lost in the Smurf Forest sometime before his first birthday and was presumably gone forever.

Hero: The Guardian Smurf stories
Hero and Wonder's child Saviour had undergone the First Word Ceremony in the HERO: The Guardian Smurf story series, with the child's first word being "guardian".