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He unlocked the door and threw it open, confident that this would be the night he would catch the troublemakers who had been playing havoc with his property and his mind. But there were no thieves inside. There was also no sign of a break in the wall. The room, however, was not empty. It was full of a large number of very impatient sacks. You could tell they were impatient from the way they were hopping up and down, breaking into little jigs, and generally showing a disinclination to behave like the normal patient sacks of the everyday world.

Bandyopādhyāẏa, Bibhūtibhūṣaṇa, and Devalina Mookerjee. Taranath Tantrik and Other Tales from the Supernatural. New Delhi: Speaking Tiger Books LLP, 2022.

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