Ghosts
Ghosts are given uneven treatment in the writing of the series, generally presented and believed to be harmless neutral beings who return to the world of the living for their own various reasons. In the reality of the series, there are some ghosts who become vengeful and violent.
There are spirits of a malevolent nature seeking vengeance:
- • "Saving Private Leo" features two brothers, Rick Lang (Costas Mandylor) and Nathan Lang (Louis Mandylor), killed in World War II who have a grudge against Leo. Leo enlisted with them in the Marines and the brothers hold him responsible for their deaths. They come back as ruthless ghosts, planning to kill Leo by making him feel guilt for his actions in several deaths; theirs, a school teacher that is one of his charges, and later Piper. The guilt then makes him powerless. While dead Piper is able to read a spell that vanquishes ghost (which can only be read by another ghost) and Leo regains his confidence in time to save her.
- • Love's a Witch features Rachelle Lefevre as the vengeful ghost Olivia Callaway who almost kills Paige during a feud between two witch families. It turns out she is stirring up the feud and can use some magical abilities from her ethereal state.
Read more about this topic: List Of Magical Beings In Charmed
Famous quotes containing the word ghosts:
“We find that even the parents who justify spanking to themselves are defensive and embarrassed about it....I suspect that deep in the memory of every parent are the feelings that had attended his own childhood spankings, the feelings of humiliation, of helplessness, of submission through fear. The parent who finds himself spanking his own child cannot dispel the ghosts of his own childhood.”
—Selma H. Fraiberg (20th century)
“Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.”
—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)
“O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn’s being,
Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead
Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing,
Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red,
Pestilence-stricken multitudes.”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)