Bag of holding

A bag of holding is a fictional magical item in the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game, capable of containing objects larger than its own size. Since its introduction, it and concepts like it have appeared in other media.
Description
A bag of holding appears to be a common cloth sack of about in size. It opens into a nondimensional space or a pocket dimension, making the space larger inside than it is outside. Each bag of holding always weighs the same amount, between , regardless of what is put into it. It can store a combined weight of up to forty times its own weight, and a combined volume of . A living creature put in a bag of holding will suffocate after about 10 minutes.
If a bag of holding is overloaded, or if a sharp object pierces it (from outside or inside), the bag will rupture and be ruined, the contents lost forever in "nilspace". Benjamin Woo uses the Bag of Holding as a way of understanding white privilege: "Like the Bag of Holding--a kind of magical 'knapsack' in Dungeons & Dragons and other fantasy games--white privilege is much bigger than it appears from the outside."
Variants
Other magical bags similar to the bags of holding include:
* A lesser bag of holding reduces only part of the weight of its contents, usually between 10% and 50%.
* The bag of devouring seems like a normal bag of holding, but is actually the feeding orifice of an extra-dimensional creature that may eat the user when they reach inside.
* The bag of tricks: by reaching into this bag, the bearer can pull out some type of animal, such as rabbits, weasels, rats, penguins and bats, or even wolves, bears, horses, or rhinos.
* Heward's handy haversack is the size of a normal backpack and weighs five pounds regardless of the contents. It has two small side pouches that, like a bag of holding, can hold two cubic feet, much more than normal, or 20 pounds of material, while the larger central portion can hold or 80 pounds. The advantage of the handy haversack is that any item placed inside will be "handy", that is, located on top when intentionally sought. For example, if one were to place a dagger inside the haversack and cover it with a load of paper, upon searching for the dagger it would magically appear above the paper.
Discworld
In Terry Pratchett's Discworld novel Making Money, wizard Ponder Stibbons is placed in charge of the "Cabinet of Curiosity", which he describes as "a classic Bag of Holding but with n mouths, where n is the number of items in an eleven-dimensional universe which are not currently alive, not pink and can fit in a cubical drawer on a side, divided by P." To ask what "P" is, is "the wrong sort of question."

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