This is yet another article in the series inspired by Jonathan Stroud's Lockwood & Co. books.
The temptation articles stress how important it is to be wary of people who offer positions of power and to think about their motives. This article has something to say about how important it is to avoid falling under the spell of people and other entities with very glamorous images and to think about what they might be hiding.
There are questions to ask and lessons to be learned.
Why do some people need to create a very glamorous image? What is behind the alluring façade? What are they concealing below the surface? Is the glittering image all that they have got to attract and influence people with?
Perhaps evil people need glamour in a way that good people do not.
Perhaps glamour, like the Attack-dog Syndrome, is a dead giveaway.
It is essential to understand that many people – and other entities - who at first sight appear to be angels may turn out to be demons!
As with the temptation articles, there are a few references to relevant material in books by other authors.
In The Whispering Skull, Lucy Carlyle saves her colleague George Cubbins from the ghost of the evil Doctor Edmund Bickerstaff; in The Empty Grave, George returns the favour by saving Lucy from being destroyed by a glamorous theatrical ghost.
George had been unable to resist the spells of Dr. Bickerstaff and his artefact, but luckily for him Lucy managed to foil the evil necromancer. Lucy however was unable to resist the spell of the Visitor in the theatre; without George’s intervention she would have been lured to her death.
The factors that led to Lucy's vulnerability have already been covered, but there is something more to say about this encounter.
