Deuteronomy 12:23

Ver. 23. Eat not the blood— This is, says Mr. Locke, in opposition to the Zabii: for though, continues he, as Dr. Cudworth has remarked, blood was very impure and unclean in the sight of the Zabii, yet, notwithstanding, it was eaten by them, because they thought it to be the food of the daemons, and that he who ate it, had, by that means, some communication with those daemons; so that they conversed more familiarly with them, and shewed them future things.