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:
“What is it we heartily wish of each other? Is it to be pleased and flattered? No, but to be convicted and exposed, to be shamed out of our nonsense of all kinds, and made men of, instead of ghosts and phantoms.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“And ghosts then keep their distance; and I know some liberty.”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)
“There were ghosts that returned to earth to hear his phrases,
As he sat there reading, aloud, the great blue tabulae.
They were those from the wilderness of stars that had expected more.
There were those that returned to hear him read from the poem of life,
Of the pans above the stove, the pots on the table, the tulips among them.
They were those that would have wept to step barefoot into reality....”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)