DCHP-3

beaver medicine

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
"Medicine" is used here in the sense of "magic." See medicine (def. 1).

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the secretion from the scent glands of the beaver used as a lure or as an ingredient in a lure.

See: beaver castor,beaver pride,castoreum(def. 1b),medicine(def. 1) (def. 5)

Quotations

1784-1812
. . . traps for beaver . . . of which the bait is the castorum of the beaver, called the beaver medicine.
1907
Beaver medicine and castorum would not allure him [a wily old beaver], and the thought occurred to me to try anise seed oil. . . .