DEMONS - BAAL - BEELZEBUB - MOLOCH Portrayal of three demons. Baal (here represented as Bel), who was originally one of the fertility gods of the Semies. The name Bel seems to have meant something like 'proprietor', or 'Lord' - an etymology that might explain certain details of this engraving. Beelzebub (here, Baal-zebub) is represented as a lord, seated in front of a sacrificial altar, and surrounded by his minions, the flies. Some insist that his name originally meant Lord of the Flies. In the lower register is Moloch, to whom children were said to have been sacrificed, in ancient times. Moloch is usually represented in the form of a hollow brazen bull, in which victims were incarcerated and immolated. Loose engraving of circa 1750, in the possession of the Charles Walker archive.