Talk:Lychgate

Merge
I have merged lych gate into lychgate (as was requested). My choice in the direction of the merge (i.e. to lychgate) was based on a Google test; if there a general consensus against this, simply switch the text to the other page (i.e. lych gate) and replace the words as needed. 24.126.199.129 19:05, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

I find it interesting that North American indigenous people has a belief that if the Owl called their name they would die. I see in this article the a LYCH owl had the same reputation, the word Lych, corpse, having survioved from old saxon. ````peterdodge —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.7.231.95 (talk) 16:30, 26 July 2009 (UTC)

St. George's Church in Beckenham, England (now a part of london)
It would be great if someone in the London area or visiting it could upload an appropriate picture of the lychgate at St. George's in Beckenham. It is stated in this article in many places around the Web - including St. George's own site - that their lychgate is either "one of the oldest' or "possibly the oldest" in England. It dates back to the 13th century.  I can't find a picture of the lychgate nor churchyard anywhere on the Web, public domain or otherwise.  I'd love to take the picture myself, but I am not able to get across the pond in the forseeable future. 69.17.65.107 (talk) 19:52, 22 March 2011 (UTC)


 * I was passing, so took one. Wheeltapper (talk) 20:46, 29 October 2011 (UTC)

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Leiche Zunge
The German phrase mentioned in the "Name" section (btw. why not "Etymology"?) is bogus. There is no term "Leiche Zunge" with a supposed meaning of "medium" in German. It is not even correct German as such a word would be formed as a composite noun and use the plural of Leiche, thus "Leichenzunge". However, this doesn't make it a real word. The German language very much lends itself to having speakers make up real sounding words on the spot. To be fair, I actually found a single use of the word "Leichenzunge" with a rough meaning of "medium" in a penny dreadful fantasy novel about vampires but the more common occurrence is in press reports about medical science/procedures where Leichenzunge literally means tongue of a corpse (things on the line of "Cancer patient speaks again with a corpse's tongue" they meant donor, but this way it sounded cooler, it was not very high quality journalism). This all aside, that little (bogus) trivia is completely irrelevant for the article. If nobody contests I'll remove that part. NorPhi (talk) 15:30, 4 October 2019 (UTC)

Use
The first paragraph is without citations, and is a mix of supposition and error. I feel the information presented below it is more appropriate. Unless someone objects, I'll remove that part. HeritageNL (talk) 23:53, 27 June 2020 (UTC)