Your grandma couldn’t get away with that dead chicken in the suitcase here and now. The TSA would be all over her.
Unless....she could plead traveling voodoo priestess. Yeah, that would work.
lol...She definitely had her superstitions and oddities passed down from a different time, but not into voodoo probably. She never got on a plane. She went to see them by train. My grandpa got to visit us here in the U.S. in the 80s. First time he ever got to be on a plane. I think he was quite in awe over it all and so were the relatives back home. And yes, he brought his English hygiene with him. I remember my mom buying him some deodorant. We had a heat-wave here in Colorado that summer. English people are NOT used to heat. He always wore a shirt, vest, tie and overcoat. 90 degree heat and his English modesty and style was out the window. I have pictures of him in his wife beater undershirt helping to wash my mom’s car. :)