DCHP-2

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

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

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

  • 1784-1812  (1916)  . . . 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. . . .