A farmer in Spain filmed himself appearing to hypnotize a hen by drawing two lines in the sand in front of the bird. The record, reported by Hamilton Bertie Gibson in Hypnosis: Its Nature and Therapeutic Uses (1980), is 3 hours 47 minutes. How to hypnotize a chicken 'the easy way' according to this farmer in Spain. Most chickens will stand immobile and stare at the line for about 30 minutes. He is absolutely motionless, his eyes are fixed, and he will remain from thirty to sixty seconds in the same posture in which he had at first only been held by force.” When the line has reached a length of about two feet the cock has become cataleptic. If the crest is thick, it is necessary to draw it back, so that the animal may follow with his eyes the tracing of the line.
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Place the chicken on its back and gently rub both sides.
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“We place a cock on a table of dark colour, rest its beak on the surface, where it is firmly held, and with a piece of chalk slowly draw a white line in continuation from the beak, as shown in our engraving. Hypnotizing Chickens Next time you are looking for something interesting to do, hypnotize a chicken. “I recollect particularly a case of catalepsy produced in a cock,” writes Gaston Tissandier in Popular Scientific Recreations (1882). One can hypnotize a chicken by holding its head against the ground and drawing a line straight outward from its beak.