Tertullian, On the Soul.
And it is often alleged because of nightmare dreams that the dead truly appear, for the Nasamones [Libyan nomads] receive special oracles by staying at the tombs of their parents … The Celts also for the same reason spend the night near the tombs of their famous men, as Nicander affirms.
[Quoted in Fionntán de Brun, in Temporality and Revivalism, UU Research Series, April 2011.]
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