This is almost certainly completely wrong, the smurfs get their hat designs from the type of hats that gnomes and dwarves and goblins usually wear in germanic folklore, the most well known of all being the garden dwarves, whose design also inspired the dwarves in snow white. The design of garden dwarves is quite recent and apparently come from miners. The hats were filled with straw to protect the miner's head from the ceiling.
amiga386 14 hours ago [-]
But the article does cover that. German gnomes (Kobolde, especially Hödekin) are usually depicted with pointy hats, or at least ones that curl backwards. The smurf hats are clearly wearing Phrygian caps.
fvdessen 11 hours ago [-]
the first smurf drawings had pointy hats, the curve is most likely a stylistic evolution.
That’s still arguably a classic Phrygian cap design. Whatever or not that was the intention/inspiration, it does resemble them - the hats you just showed are not perfectly conical, there’s a flip at the top.
cubefox 11 hours ago [-]
A quick Google image search for "garden gnome" and "gartenzwerg" shows that both types are quite common. But they originally didn't necessarily have the hats common today. These are the oldest surviving garden gnomes according to [1]:
Why GPT writing sounds like the median lazy blog post of five years ago is left as an exercise for the reader.
17 hours ago [-]
jama211 12 hours ago [-]
But facts? That goes against the hive mind
pgsandstrom 17 hours ago [-]
What, you think the article was written by AI? Why?
Cthulhu_ 16 hours ago [-]
It's 2025, you can flip a coin and be correct half the time, and no consequences if you're wrong.
jama211 12 hours ago [-]
Looks like there are consequences, they’re being called out, which is good
fkyoureadthedoc 10 hours ago [-]
Being called out anonymously and never thinking about it again, that's gotta sting
quietbritishjim 14 hours ago [-]
I guess because it is full of guesswork and devoid of real factual research (at least for the main headline question). But it turns out that bloggers looking for content and lacking any skill are also capable of writing plausible-sounding slop.
Fun random fact, the tool used to animate the smurfs hats in 3 out of 4 CG smurfs films, was actually created for Doctor Manhattan’s junk for the original Watchmen film.
thirtygeo 18 hours ago [-]
My wife did not appreciate this fun fact but I did
kjs3 6 hours ago [-]
I feel like there's more entertaining detail you're leaving out here.
Panel 1
Waiter: "Sir, I’d like to ask you to take off your cap in this restaurant."
Smurf: "Take off my cap? You’re not asking me to take off my pants, are you?!"
Panel 2
Waiter: "That’s not the same."
Smurf: "That is the same."
Panel 3
Cook (to waiter): "Let him put his cap back on."
Waiter: "That’s maybe better."
Vinnl 5 hours ago [-]
I'll do a manual one that's more correct and captures the spirit better:
Panel 1
Waiter: "Sir, please take your hat off in this restaurant."
Smurf: "Take off my hat? You wouldn't ask me to take off my trousers either, would you!"
Panel 2
Waiter: "That’s not the same at all."
Smurf: "Yes it is!"
Panel 3
Cook (to waiter): "Let's let him put his hat back on."
The smurf's being asked to remove his hat since wearing it in a restaurant is considered impolite. When being pressed the smurf says 'I don't ask you to remove your pants'. When it's revealed the smurfs genitals are under his hat Dirkjan's mate says 'maybe we should let hem keep his hat on'.
does the bashed forage cap of the civil war era also pay dues to this?
Jean-Papoulos 13 hours ago [-]
I can't believe they re-colored the entire first comic to make the Smurfs purple and not black. That's hilarious
thedailymail 20 hours ago [-]
Or maybe the artist was inspired by the connection of the Phrygian cap with psychedelic "liberty cap" mushrooms (Psilocybe semilanceata), which are distributed widely across Europe and associated with elves, fairies and various other wee folk?
I don't know but their houses are definitely amanita muscaria.
Tade0 15 hours ago [-]
Which makes sense as you want your house to be as inedible as possible.
I assume they have some method of keeping snails, woodpeckers and other animals resistant to the poison at bay.
cluckindan 10 hours ago [-]
Amanita muscaria is not inedible, it just needs to be processed correctly.
Tade0 5 hours ago [-]
I happen to know a person who experimented with eating dried caps and I don't think there exists a process that actually makes them harmless. Unless of course you're isolating muscimol, but I don't think that should count as eating the fungus.
While liver damage is mitigated by the fact that the organ in question regenerates, nerves don't.
Which is why I carry around a pocketful of snails.
jesperwe 18 hours ago [-]
Maybe the white on top of their heads IS their hair? And Papa smurf was old and bald and used a hat to blend in.
eadmund 7 hours ago [-]
> Somewhere along the line in the French Revolution, they adopted the freed slaves’ head gear as their own symbol of freedom, but picked the wrong one.
And my unopular opinion is that Smurfette is most probably wearing a wig.
variaga 9 hours ago [-]
Smurfette isn't an actual Smurf, she's a construct made by Gargamel (yes, this is actual Smurf canon), so presumably her hair is also some sort of construct.
ivape 12 hours ago [-]
Why is that website?
jansan 8 hours ago [-]
Because that's where I found that discussion. Is there a problem with that website?
whycombyourhair 10 hours ago [-]
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animal531 14 hours ago [-]
I have bigger questions about their long-johns than the hats.
- Why long pants instead of shorts? It does make them look more dignified, I suppose.
- Why white, you know that's just going to stain the feet something terrible.
https://www.lm-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/schtr...
Schloss Mirabell: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mirabellgarten_%E7%B... (1690-1695)
Schloss Greillenstein: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Schloss_Greillenstei... (around 1700)
1: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartenzwerg
Why GPT writing sounds like the median lazy blog post of five years ago is left as an exercise for the reader.
Panel 1 Waiter: "Sir, I’d like to ask you to take off your cap in this restaurant." Smurf: "Take off my cap? You’re not asking me to take off my pants, are you?!"
Panel 2 Waiter: "That’s not the same." Smurf: "That is the same."
Panel 3 Cook (to waiter): "Let him put his cap back on." Waiter: "That’s maybe better."
Panel 1
Waiter: "Sir, please take your hat off in this restaurant."
Smurf: "Take off my hat? You wouldn't ask me to take off my trousers either, would you!"
Panel 2
Waiter: "That’s not the same at all."
Smurf: "Yes it is!"
Panel 3
Cook (to waiter): "Let's let him put his hat back on."
Waiter: "Yes, let's."
And this one always gets me too: https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fw... with the "Jesmurfa's witness"
Edit: Typing that out me realise that I could just search for that word. Apparently it's just absurdist: https://www.reddit.com/r/learndutch/comments/17nvt4g/pranfeu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrygian_cap
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psilocybe_semilanceata
I assume they have some method of keeping snails, woodpeckers and other animals resistant to the poison at bay.
While liver damage is mitigated by the fact that the organ in question regenerates, nerves don't.
That’s just so typical of the French Revolution.
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/YIoAAOSwA7ZmQs6N/s-l1600.png
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/jun/06/smurfs-accused...
- Gargamel is a priest, the smurfs are prosecuted by the church
- Papa smurf wears red and has a beard because of ideological reasons, the smurfs political and economic system resembles communism
- Smurfs represent the seven deadly sins/seven capital vices
https://bluebuddies.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi/topic/1/1485....
And my unopular opinion is that Smurfette is most probably wearing a wig.
- Why long pants instead of shorts? It does make them look more dignified, I suppose.
- Why white, you know that's just going to stain the feet something terrible.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Feel free to flag articles you don’t like. Maybe others will agree.
Should have spent that time reading the guidelines champ.