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.

Sure. We call jail jail.

Both the US and the UK have at times used “gaol” in our histories, but it’s super archaic in both places. You might be thinking of one of the other 57 countries for which English is an official language?

(You’re probably thinking of Australia, but they also generally only use “gaol” in a historic context, even though it’s retained in some place names with that spelling.)

We call fries fries, we just don’t call chips fries. It’s useful to have a distinction between thin-cut and thick-cut potato rectangles.

Likewise, we call cookies cookies but we’re don’t call biscuits cookies. (And we don’t call American biscuits anything, they’re a total mystery to us.)

Context: it’s an armored truck built for the Republic at the Constructora Field factory in Barcelona during the Spanish civil war, circa 1936, and armored with boiler plate.

CNT-FAI represented the anarchist organizations, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo and the Federación Anarquista Ibérica.