

“Its smoke is so powerful that it has become a staple in sacred rituals, becoming an essential energy tool for shamans and saints alike,” writes the Energy Muse Blog. Not only is it good for keeping insects away, which is why it’s so popular in Ecuador and Peru, it cleanses an area, much like sage.

It’s a mystical tree that’s part of the citrus family and related to frankincense and myrrh, according to Sacred Wood Essence.

How to defeat it: Palo santo, a holy wood from the coast of South America used by the Inca. In the Dictionnaire Infernal, he’s Hell’s ambassador to France. One of the Seven Princes of Hell, Belphegor is connected to sloth by Binsfeld, though others say he seduces people by giving them ingenious ideas for inventions that will make them rich and that he was originally worshiped as a phallus and was associated with orgies.
