It is illegal to display a hypnotized person in a storefront window.

The Law

During the vaudeville era, traveling hypnotists and mesmerists would sometimes put subjects into a trance and prop them up in shop windows as a bizarre advertising gimmick. The state legislature deemed this practice both degrading and a public nuisance that caused massive traffic jams on sidewalks. Consequently, exhibiting the hypnotized for commercial gain was strictly outlawed.