The Elder Ramus shown levitating in an orb enduced meditation

In the WB television show Charmed, the Elders are a fictional group of people who oversee good magic. In the Season 1 episode "Secrets and Guys", they are referred to as "The Founders", but all subsequent episodes/seasons use the term "Elders". Image File history File links CharmedElder. ... Levitation is the process by which an object is suspended against gravity, in a stable position, by a force without physical contact. ... Orbing is the magical form of teleportation used by Whitelighters and Elders in the television show Charmed. ... The WB Television Network, casually referred to as The WB, or sometimes as The Frog (referring to the networks former mascot, the animated character Michigan J. Frog), is a television network in the United States, founded as a joint venture between the Warner Bros. ... Charmed is a long-running U.S. television series by Aaron Spelling about three sisters who are powerful good witches known throughout the supernatural community as The Charmed Ones. ... The Three Graces, here in a painting by Sandro Botticelli, were the goddesses of charm, beauty, nature, human creativity and fertility in Greek mythology. ... Magic or sorcery are terms referring to the alleged influencing of events and physical phenomena by supernatural, mystical, or paranormal means. ... When Prue receives a cryptic plea for help, she and Phoebe spring into action to save Max, a 13-year-old witch who has been kidnapped by a pair of vicious thugs aiming to make use of Maxs powers to aid in the commission of a bank robbery. ...

Elders mainly keep track of witches, watching from the Heavens. They communicate with those on Earth through their helpers and messengers, the whitelighters. The Elders decide who may become a whitelighter, and give and take their powers. A whitelighter's ability to heal is channeled directly from the Elders. This article is part of the Witchcraft series. ... Earth is the third planet from the Sun. ... Charmed is a U.S. television series about three sisters who are witches; they use their powers to fight evil. ... Healing is the process where the cells in the body regenerate and repair to reduce the size of a damaged or necrotic area. ...

Apparently in the show's universe at least most, if not all, of the Elders were at one time whitelighters themselves. Leo Wyatt was promoted to the rank of Elder after saving the Charmed Ones and the remaining Elders from the wrath of the Titans. Though most Elders have powers much like Whitelighters, the Charmed Ones protect a retiring Elder for a short time whose powers are strictly of the mental sort, and cannot orb or fight. Brian Krause as Leo Wyatt Leo Wyatt is a fictional character from the TV series Charmed. ... Charmed is a U.S. television series about three sisters who are witches; they use their powers to fight evil. ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion, because: it is patent nonsense. ...

Though whitelighters are not allowed to kill, the Elders have powerful fighting abilities. An Elders' powers are the same as Whitelighters but with their power level ramped up. Leo is seen using a lightning-like power to kill Gideon . In the episode "It's a Bad, Bad, Bad, Bad World Part I" three elders are shown to kill a mortal with magical flames, although this occurs in a magic-induced hallucination and does not indicate their actual abilities. Gideon is known as the headmaster of the Magic School. ...

When witches need advice on demons they know nothing about, they can ask the Elders by sending their whitelighter. The Elders however are not all knowing, in some cases they are as clueless about something as the sisters are. In ep "Apocalypse not" Leo had to find out who the four horsemen were and what they were up to because the elders could not help. The Elders do not allow witches or any other magical being besides themselves and whitelighters to enter the Heavens. Even the Charmed Ones do not have this privilege, as Piper and Leo have to ask for an audience when they seek permission to have a relationship, and Leo specifically tells Piper she is not allowed there when she comes to see him. The Elders do, however, allow Leo to watch over his son Wyatt and to take him to be with the Elders when he may be in danger. The demon Satan In folklore, mythology, and religion, a demon is a supernatural being that is generally described as an evil spirit, but is also depicted to be good in some instances. ...

Paige recently has been using her whitelighter side, and is now able to converse with the elders as she pleases. Though she does not go to the Heavens like the other elders or whitelighters do, they meet at the Golden Gate Bridge and she speaks with one of the few women elders, Sandra.

Very few Elders ever come to Earth. Leo and Gideon are rare examples who spend most of their time outside the Heavens. A few have come to Earth to speak directly with them about important issues like Gideon's intentions to kill Wyatt and the possible threat of the Avatars but as a group, the Elders prefer to take a background role and remain largely unseen in the day-to-day affairs of even the magical world. The following passage on Avatars is based on the television series Charmed. It is not a dictionary description or definition of avatars. ...