medicine-bag

• “In Seattle, however, this small “medicine-bag” triggered a minor security alert.”

  Lausanne to Portland — Climb to the Stars

• “She seized a silverpoint and a notebook from her medicine-bag and wrote down her speculations.”

  Owlsight

• “I wish I'd brought handiwork, " Keisha sighed, fidgeting with her medicine-bag, pulling things out, looking at them, and putting them back in again.”

  Owlsight

• “The bone-and-tooth beads around his neck and the grimy medicine-bag suspended thereon showed him to be a rural wizard, as did the herbs and fetishes hung from the eaves of his smoldering roof.”

  Conan The Warlord

• “The wound given in circumcision commonly heals in one week, yet they remain in the woods for a period of six months, cut off from all intercourse with the outside world, and in the meanwhile each receives separate instruction how to prepare his medicine-bag.”

  The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day

• “From a pole in the centre was suspended a small bag, -- the mysterious medicine-bag of the occupant.”

  Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885

• “The rival medicine-men, each furnished with his medicine-bag, his amulets, and other professional paraphernalia, arrayed in full dress, and covered with war-paint, met in the presence of a great concourse.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866

• “Catlin, in his "Eight Years," says: "When I painted this chief, he was dressed in a plain suit of buckskin, with a string of wampum in his ears and on his neck, and held in his hand his medicine-bag, which was the skin of a black hawk, from which he had taken his name, and the tail of which made him a fan, which he was almost constantly using.”

  McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 2, January, 1896

• “Similarly among the Esquimaux of Alaska, when a child is sick, the medicine-man will sometimes extract its soul from its body and place it for safe-keeping in an amulet, which for further security he deposits in his own medicine-bag.”

  Chapter 67. The External Soul in Folk-Custom. § 1. The External Soul in Inanimate Things

• “In other tribes, for example, the Ojebways, Winnebagoes, and Dacotas or Sioux, the instrument by which the candidate is apparently slain is the medicine-bag.”

  The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion

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