"Some do not consider the truth concerning daemons, namely that if they are to remain in this gross air near the earth they need food from sacrifices and so keep where there is always smoke and blood and incense.  Accordingly, they hold it a light and indifferent matter to offer sacrifice.  To this we would say that if those who provide food for thieves and murderers and barbarian enemies of the great king are punished as offenders against society, how much more would they be most justly punished who by sacrificing to the ministers of evil give them food which maintains them in the region near the earth..." Exhortation to Martyrdom."

   According to Origen sacrifices are the food of daemons and cause earthly disasters, drought, famine, flood, drought, and earthquakes.