| 单词 | war medicine |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswar medicine war medicine n. North American (a form of) magic formerly used by North American Indians to ensure success in war; also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > non-European magic (miscellaneous) > [noun] > American Indian medicine > to ensure success in war war medicine1805 1805 W. Clark Jrnl. 11 Jan. in Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1987) III. 271 Some of our men go to See a war medison..made at the village on the opposit Side of the river. 1893 Chicago Tribune 28 Apr. 4/1 Gov. Altgeld..proceeded to administer a dose of war medicine he had been making for some time. 1962 E. E. Evans-Pritchard in Ess. Social Anthropol. v. 95 He used some of these forms of magic himself, getting old commoners to bring the medicines and perform the rites, except in the case of the war-medicines, which he administered himself, from the large bongo horn in which they were kept. < as lemmas |
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