David Hume’s tomb was one of a few sites at a cemetery in Edinburgh that have been vandalized with “disturbing occult-style paraphernalia,” according to The Guardian.
A tour guide made the discovery at the Old Calton burial ground. It included a drawing of a naked woman pointing a bloodied knife at a baby with a noose around its neck, and coded writing on red electrical tape attached to the David Hume mausoleum and two nearby memorial stones. The guide emailed photographs of the vandalism to Edinburgh council and described the symbols as “satanic”. A group on Telegram purporting to be responsible for the vandalism of graves at unnamed cemeteries posted photographs of the same damage in a now-deleted channel.
More details here.
Readers may recall this earlier bit of Kant-related vandalism.
“The group also posted photographs of strange paraphernalia found at the Old Calton burial ground, including […] red tape in which the words ‘anti meta physical front’ were printed.”
You would think anti-metaphysics partisans would have more respect for Hume.
Describing this as “vandalism” or “damage” seems a little unfair. If it brings him back from hell so we can chat with him, I think it’s worth it! Does anyone know if it succeeded? I want to ask him where I can get a hat like his.
Necromancers, amirite??
Awakening him from a very long and slightly dogmatic slumber.
there’s a wee fear in the air that police will be looking in to the local supporters of Thomas Reid
My money is on a local feud with known Freemason Dugald Stewart, not that Glaswegian Reid.
I’ve yet to see any evidence that satanism caused this act of vandalism. Actually, I’ve yet to see any evidence of causality in general.