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minus-squareirishPotato@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up8·3 days agoIs that what that is? To keep liches out? Can’t find any references apart from Warhammer
minus-squareegrets@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·3 days agoA 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.
Is that what that is? To keep liches out? Can’t find any references apart from Warhammer
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.