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BROOKSVILLE, Fla. — Police arrested a Florida woman who they say tried to stab a deputy with a “large sword or machete type weapon” inside a mobile home filled with thousands of knives, swords and bladed instruments.

Also in the home: mannequin heads with knives protruding from their foreheads, fake severed limbs and what appeared to be a makeshift satanic shrine.

The Hernando County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release that deputies went to Nickole Dykema’s home Tuesday night to assist probation and parole officers who were trying to issue felony arrest warrants.

When they arrived, Dykema “responded with numerous obscenities and told the law enforcement officers to ‘leave her property'” through a broken window.

The officers made a decision to force their way in, at which point “Dykema utilized a large sword or machete type weapon and attempted to stab Sergeant (Chris) Calderon, missing his face and head by only inches.”

After getting in, visibility was limited, but the officers saw a pair of feet in the corner, where the woman was apparently hiding under or behind a blanket, the police release says. “Deputies also observed a long, silver, shiny sword waving around behind the blanket.”

They fired several bean bag rounds at her after she tried to stab the deputy and refused to surrender.

Authorities said she later armed herself with several weapons and advanced toward deputies. She was arrested nearly five hours later after authorities struck her with a stun gun.

Dykema faces multiple charges. Deputies said they had removed more than 3,500 “bladed instruments” from the home.

“Everyone in this neighborhood was scared of that woman everyone around here,” Fuzz Spisok, a neighbour, told WTSP.