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But what if you can't die
Apr. 9th, 2023 10:29 amso your soul can find neither rest nor resurrection?
While others have been preoccupied with resurrection and the afterlife, I've been attempting to find legends regarding people who are too evil to die, who have a literal inability to cease living, no matter how burdened by their own sins they may become, and the very ground itself refuses to allow them to be buried in it.
Specifically, I've been obsessed with this Josh Ritter song
"Ground Don't Want Me"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuadfchdsiI
which is about a gunslinger who is cursed by his dying mother to "go to Hell real slow," while the chorus and the title dwell on the theme of someone who is so evil that he cannot die, and the very ground itself refuses to hold and shelter him.
This theme seems like its a really old legend or piece of religious folklore, but I'm drawing a blank when I try to think of legends or stories that have used it. Kudos to Ritter for creeping me out in just a few verses.
While others have been preoccupied with resurrection and the afterlife, I've been attempting to find legends regarding people who are too evil to die, who have a literal inability to cease living, no matter how burdened by their own sins they may become, and the very ground itself refuses to allow them to be buried in it.
Specifically, I've been obsessed with this Josh Ritter song
"Ground Don't Want Me"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuadfchdsiI
which is about a gunslinger who is cursed by his dying mother to "go to Hell real slow," while the chorus and the title dwell on the theme of someone who is so evil that he cannot die, and the very ground itself refuses to hold and shelter him.
This theme seems like its a really old legend or piece of religious folklore, but I'm drawing a blank when I try to think of legends or stories that have used it. Kudos to Ritter for creeping me out in just a few verses.
