medicine-bag

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

Lausanne to Portland — Climb to the Stars 2007

"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 Lackey, Mercedes 1998

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

Owlsight Lackey, Mercedes 1998

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 Carpenter, Leonard 1988

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 Carpenter, Leonard 1988

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 Various

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 Various

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 Alexander F. Chamberlain

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

Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 Various

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 1922