Everything about The Pasilalinic-sympathetic Compass totally explained
The
pasilalinic-sympathetic compass, also referred to as the
snail telegraph, was a contraption built to prove the belief that
snails create a permanent
telepathic link when they touch. The belief was developed by
French occultist Jacques Toussaint Benoit and colleague Monsieur Biat-Chretien in the early to mid 19th century. The telepathic bond was theorised to have no physical limit, with communication being possible over any distance. By touching one half of the snail partnership the other will sense the contact and will itself move. Benoit built apparatus to test his theories but it quickly became apparent that what he expected to be a communication revolution was just a costly failure.
The theory
Benoit and Biat-Chretien believed that when there's contact between two snails a special type of fluid forms a link between them. This fluid forms an invisible thread that keeps the snails in "sympathetic communication" by using
animal magnetism caused by an electric current pulsating along it. Though this implies some form of
physical link between the two snails it was still referred to as "telepathy".
Making a working model
Benoit didn't have enough financial support to build his design. Benoit persuaded the Monsieur Triat, manager of a Paris gymnasium, to give him lodgings and an allowance, having impressed upon him the importance of his discovery. After a year Triat's patience grew thin and he demanded to see a working model.
Coverage
Along with the Allix article in
La Presse the story of the pasilalinic-sympathetic compass was covered by the 1889 book
Historic Oddities and Strange Events by Sabine Baring-Gould.
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