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Is this a spirit or a broken cabinet???

niehuaisang

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So let me explain, it might sound silly but hear me out. the bathroom has two cabinets above the toilet like the kind with push to open latches. You push it in and it pops open. We have a bunch of these same cabinets around the house and only one other has a truly broken latch, which I tested. It doesnt behave like the cabinet im gonna be talking about. I make multiple trips to the bathroom at night and for months now i had this reccuring problem of having the lower cabinet being always open. I would close it and when i came back an hour later it was open again. i cant find any rational explanation for it since the latch seems perfectly fine. I am really so green when it comes to such subjects and i just wanna ask someone who actually has knowledge whether its just my cabinet being broken or something in there? If it helps to know ive been talking to it, the 'spirit' i mean, no reply besides the cabinet opening of course. For two days now it didnt happen and i sort of forgot about it but tonight, second trip to the bathroom, the first thing i notice is that for the first time ever the top cabinet is open instead and im sure as hell that an hour before it was closed just fine. Can someone well versed in this tell me if im just reading into it too deep? and if it might be something, how do i check if it truly is?
 
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99.9% chance it's a broken cabinet. Bathrooms are humid, which warps wood and does this kind of thing.

I would start by looking at the hinges and making sure they're both tight and sell-secured into the side of the cabinet and door. Then just check if anything is loose anywhere or shifting, even attached to the wall or floor.
 

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I would say if it not an anomaly of cabinet design, wear and tear, &etc., in the worst case you may have what's called a "Sulak". It's a type of demon known to ancient Babylonians and Jews that typically haunts the bathroom where it can strike a person while alone.
In the case of the Talmud, it is called "Sheid bet ha-Kisse", and can cause epilepsy in the victim's children if he does not take a long walk after using the head to rid himself of its presence before having sexual intercourse.
There is a lion type amulet that can be used against the Sulak, though I recall hearing that one Jewish solution was for a hole to be cut in the privy wall so a man's wife can place her hand though it an on his head while he is doing his business - suggesting the marital bond may be protection in itself.
 
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