Okay, I believe you, and I think your idea about the hypnosis thing may explain it.
I wonder if anyone has made that connection before?
That is what I was thinking, that they just got mesmerized.
We did the “string trick” an uncountable number of times.
Occasionally you would pick a chicken that it wouldn’t work on.
But we had to do it for other buddies in the neighborhood because they wanted to see it or participate.
We even saved off the kite string for reuse.
My guess it was 20-25 foot long, and we laid each one out on our driveway when it wasn’t hot out.
I had never heard about the string before you mentioned it. I would certainly be curious to know if anyone else has seen either or those strange events.
Did you actually try the string thing or just hear it from your grandmother?