"In his famous essay Of Miracles, the great 18th-century Edinburgh sceptic David Hume pronounced: 'No testimony for any kind of miracle has ever amounted to a probability, much less to a proof.'
"Hume was not just carrying on his small-arms war with the Christian religion, of which he disapproved. He was also at war with the ghosts, witches, bogles, kelpies, fairies, demons, brownies, second sight, magic, prophecies and assorted spirits that had infested the Scottish mind since before the Reformation."
—James Buchan, "The ghost stories that continue to haunt us," The Sunday Times (UK), August 17, 2008.
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