DCHP-3

strong medicine

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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something believed to have power over the forces of nature; magic or supernatural powers believed to have the means of healing or harming.

Quotations

1942
And the testing of the braves! That had been strong medicine.
1944
These strange [medicine] men have nearly altogether died off, and I know of none of them now living who used to make what they called 'strong medicine" in the late seventies.