Hogatha (Empath stories)

Hogatha is a character who is part of the EMPATH: The Luckiest Smurf story series. She is a short, fat, ugly, and lonely witch who wears an orange wig to hide her baldness, whose main desire is to make herself beautiful and attractive enough to have the man of her dreams fall in love with her.

Sometimes her plans to do this include Smurfs, which she has masqueraded as twice in the cartoon series (once as Snorty Smurf and another time as Grandma Smurfette). As her name suggests, Hogatha snorts like a pig when she talks or laughs. She rides around on a pet vulture that she calls Harold. Hogatha's favorite holiday is Halloween and she loves to scare children.

About one year after Empath's final return from Psychelia, Hogatha tapped into the spells Papa Smurf used to make Smurfette young and beautiful so that she could be young and beautiful, though it ended up making Smurfette old and ugly in the process. The youth siphoning spell was broken when Empath confessed to Smurfette that he would always love her no matter how old or ugly she looked.