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What is the Lenni Lenape legend about Devils Pool, a pool in Fairmount Park in Mount Airy where the Cresheim and Wissahickon Creeks meet?

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What is the Lenni Lenape legend about Devils Pool, a pool in Fairmount Park in Mount Airy where the Cresheim and Wissahickon Creeks meet?

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The Native Americans in this area believed that it was in this churning pool, surrounded by large up-thrusting rocks, that the Good Spirit imprisoned the Evil Spirit.

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The Native Americans in this area believed that it was in this churning pool, surrounded by large up-thrusting rocks, that the Good Spirit imprisoned the Evil Spirit. Source: Mount Airy in Philadelphia, 1979, p.3, Phyllis Knapp Thomas, 974.