Editing Morlock (section)

==Name origin==
With regard to the choice of the name, one writer has made a specific association between Wells' "Morlocks" and the [[Morlachs]], a rural people of Venetian [[Dalmatia]], frequently demonized by Westerners in the 16th–18th centuries.<ref>{{Cite book| author = Wolff, Larry | date = 2003 | title = Venice and the Slavs: The Discovery of Dalmatia in the Age of Enlightenment | location = Stanford, CA | publisher=Stanford University Press | isbn=0-80473946-3| pages= 348, 126 | url= https://books.google.com/books?id=B2LFRiT1nfYC&pg=PA348 | access-date = 3 April 2025}}</ref> Alternatively, the name may have been{{speculation inline|date=April 2025}} inspired by [[Moloch]],{{cn|date=April 2025}} the [[Ancient Canaanite religion|Canaanite god]] of [[child sacrifice]],{{cn|date=April 2025}} which positions Eloi as analogous to children.{{cn|date=April 2025}}