Victims don’t fit a single profile, but older foreign men and lonely middle-aged foreign women appear to be prime targets for the beguilers.

He is a beguiler of local youth and an arrogant nemesis of provincial mucky-mucks.

Of course he had, my dear, and a most engaging lover he made, I’ll be bound, seeing he is so apt a beguiler in other things.

And his actresses were young beguilers who bloomed under his lens.

The story of Cleopatra, the beguiler of Mark Antony, is too well known to need repeating here.