Revealed! Popular Witchcraft in Xiangxi - The Chicken-Stopping Spell
In the Xiangxi region of Hunan, there is a popular technique used by witch doctors known as "stopping the chicken." By casting a spell, a live chicken will immediately become completely still, as if frozen in place, and no matter how you touch it, grab it, or scare it, it won't move. In Xiangxi, the purpose of stopping the chicken is to use live chickens during funerals to suppress bad luck. Does the power of real spells actually exist? And can their power be so immense? If it's not the force of the spell at work, then what is it? Reporters, with a series of questions, observed closely and personally experienced the phenomenon, only to discover that it is merely a technique — one that exploits the defect in the balance between the left and right brains of livestock.
This revelation demystifies the practice, showing that what appears to be supernatural is, in fact, a psychological and physiological trick rather than an actual magical spell.