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      3 days ago

      A lich isn’t a creature from traditional folklore, it’s a DnD invention. The word is an archaic word for a corpse, which is the relevance here - it’s the route by which a body was taken for burial, and sometimes kept while waiting for burial.

      A bunch of old churches in the UK have them.