 Ovid writes in his "Metamorphoses" of a marketplace in the underworld where the dead convene to exchange news and gossip.In the Mabinogion, a collection of traditional Welsh oral stories that originate from the 7th and 8th centuries, which was ultimately recorded onto manuscripts between 1350–1410, records Bran gifting Matholwch with new horses and gifts, including a magical cauldron Pair Dadeni that brings the dead back to life.There are also several references to necromancers – called "bone-conjurers" among Jews of the later Hellenistic period – in the Bible.