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There exists a make of woodburning stove called ‘The Little Wenlock’.

For those who don’t know what a Moloch is, I’ll let Brewer do the explaining:

“Moloch: Any influence which demands from us the sacrifice of what we hold most dear. Thus war is a Moloch, king mob is a Moloch, the guillotine was the Moloch of the French Revolution, etc. The allusion is to the god of the Ammonites [Phoenicians], to whom children were ‘made to pass through the fire’ in sacrifice.”

To be fair, however, it must be pointed out that almost all we know about Moloch is based on what the bitter enemies of the Phoenicians said about him.