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good medicine
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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in Indian parlance, any auspicious action, event, or thing; good luck.
See: bad medicine(def. 1)
Quotations
1858
I gave a bundle [of matches] to Mis-tick-oos, who wrapped them carefully in a piece of deerskin, and said he should keep them safely: they were "good medicine."
1893
When specially fortunate in hunting or warfare or in more quiet duties of life he was said to be under the influence of "good medicine."
1923
He could not have gone to heaven had he died with his eyes open; and for themselves it would not have been "good medicine" to leave him.
1965
. . . if an Indian's horse romped home in a race, the winner cared little whether the shaman had come to his aid with good medicine or the sorcerer had assisted him by putting a curse on the losers.