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Welcome to the weekend! It’s finally Friday. Every Friday, new movies come out in theaters. I’m not sure if there’s anything out right now that has me wanting to find a sitter and rush to the nearest theater, but there is one that I chose to write about this week. That is the animated move called Smurfs: The Lost Village.
No, I’m not writing a movie review, that’s not the type of blog this is. Plus I didn’t see this movie and am not sure if I’m going to. After all, I know nothing about the Smurfs other than it’s this cartoon from the 80’s with these little blue creatures. There’s one other thing that I knew about it since I was a kid—Smurfs are demonic and we should have nothing to do with them. Obviously I know now that this is garbage, and I no longer believe it. But when I was a kid, and my Smurf stuffed animal disappeared, it was very real to me.
So, What’s The Story?
As an adult, I’ve become aware of more stories–or actually, incidents–surrounding the Smurfs. The one I heard about when I was little was that one Smurf doll that 
someone had suddenly started talking. That was reason enough for my mom to get rid of mine. Some of the other incidents I heard are pretty funny.
One story was that a kid was sitting in a Kingdom Hall and had his or her Smurf stuffed animal there. It suddenly got up, declared “I’m out of here!”, and walked out of the building.
Another story is that a kid who wore Smurf pajamas was bitten by the characters on the fabric.
I bet there are more tales than this out there, but these are the only ones I know of. The common thread here is that apparently, Smurfs are demonic. I’m not sure how Smurfs got to be connected to demon-ism, but somehow it did. And to Jehovah’s Witnesses, anything that they feel fits in the category of being demonic has to be avoided. Even if the stories sound far-fetched. Even if there’s no actual documented evidence of these strange occurrences. If someone said it, it must be true.
Nothing Wrong with Smurfs
In conclusion, I say take your kids to see the movie. Buy them the toys and clothes and other accessories. I have yet to hear about any other incidents of Smurf toys and clothes becoming possessed. If you know of any Jehovah’s Witness kids, you can save yourself the trouble of inviting them to the movies to see it with your kids. They’ll make up an excuse why their kid can’t go. You’ll know the real reason though…and you can laugh to yourself at the silliness of it all. Now, excuse me while I go online to look for some Smurf-abilia to order for my child.
What In The JDub? 
You are spot on! If I ever had the slightest intuition about something (which I do, often) my mom would tell me it was Satan. I am ashamed to admit this but in effort to get my JW mom to stop one of her many magazine subscriptions I told her that Highlights magazine is now promoting a gay couple. She gave up the subscription.
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Yes it’s like everything that can’t be explained has to be Satan, lol. Oh wow that’s too funny about Highlights. That’s a surefire way to get JWs to avoid something lol. Thanks for your comment!
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We do hope you enjoyed our typical Belgian characters and had a very good smurftime (or schroumpftime). Did you and your kids try to speak smurf?
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Sorry for the late response, I have been super busy! I didn’t actually see the movie, and my daughter is only 11 months old. I would like to see it though, since I can’t remember ever watching anything dealing with the Smurfs. It would be fun lol.
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Do not forget you also can get the animated stories with the comic strips in house .
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If this smurf story is real than most of fairy tales and animation films would be prohibited material?
In which category would fall the American mouse “Mickey mouse”, or would our Belgian gnomes being related to the Celtic trolls and gnomes, but then should JW as real Christians not know that there does not exist such a thing as demonic spirits or death spirits hovering around and there not being a underworld of spirits and extraterrestrial beings demonising the worldly beings.
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You’re so right! If only Jehovah’s Witnesses reasoned this way. They don’t unfortunately, and they do actually believe in demonic spirits and the devil existing and influencing the whole world. Some JW’s are extreme and avoid some cartoons, movies, characters, etc.
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