"Arsenal" may be an apt term to describe a Florida residence where police say a woman kept 3,714 knives, swords, machetes and hatchets.

Sheriff's deputies on Thursday arrested the weapons' owner, Nickcole Ellen Fay Dykema, who had "booby-trapped many of the bladed weapons, blankets, floors inside and even the yard outside the residence," said Hernando County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Denise Moloney, CNN reported. 

The 47-year-old woman was charged with assaulting an officer and resisting arrest, Moloney told Reuters. Officers had originally approached her trailer because of a probation violation and discovered what the newswire called a "macabre scene" with blades hanging from the ceiling and walls of the home 50 miles north of Tampa.

Dykema barricaded herself inside for five hours and then lunged at one officer with a sword-like weapon, narrowly missing an officer's head, Moloney detailed. Several investigators suffered minor injuries as they removed the weapons from the mobile home.

Some deputies were injured by pins hidden in blankets and the spiked knife handles, according to the Tampa Bay News. They were treated at a medical facility and released, the newspaper said.

"You name it and it was in there. It looks like she had an obsession with (blades)," Moloney said. "It appears there was some satanic thing going on. She had pictures of pentagrams, there were fake body parts, the kind that you can buy from the Halloween store, and skeletons on the wall with knives protruding out of them."

The Florida Department of Corrections, which wanted Dykema arrested for violation of probation, told the Tampa Bay Times that it had not been aware that she possessed thousands of knives. The woman had been convicted in 1990 on a charge of aggravated battery and was not allowed to possess any weapons.

Dykema continued to be held on Thursday without bail in the Hernando County Detention Center, the Florida newspaper detailed. Whether she would get her swords and machetes back, meanwhile, will be determined by a judge, Moloney concluded.