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Something Bit Me in the Dark: The Rigveda's Hymn Against the Unseen
The last hymn of the Rigveda's first book is not addressed to a god. It is a charm against creatures too small to see, and it names a category of enemy defined entirely by invisibility. The word for them appears nowhere else in the collection.