Well, yes. Passing the bitter end of a string or line through such a coil is actually also an old magic trick for producing a series of overhand knots from a coil. The term for this type of coil is an alternating half hitch coil.
The “trick” to not doing that is using proper cable wraps (trick line, velcro rapes, whatever) to secure the wrapped coil to prevent either bitter end of the cable from being passed through the coil.
Coiling any torsion resistant long cables in hand without using twist neutral alternating half-hitch (or figure 8) coils means you are going to get a shit ton of twist in the cable. That may work for twisted hemp rope but I really, really hate it for any conductors I care about and want to lay flat when I uncoil them.
