ABSTRACT
The area in which the folklore presented is one small four-block marginal neighborhood just south of central Philadelphia, bounded by Pine Street on the north, Juniper on the west, South Street on the south, and Twelfth Street on the east. The neighborhood, as many others in this section of Philadelphia, is made up of two types of dwellings: four and five-story tenements and small, three-story houses, the latter built between 1790 and 1830 and known affectionately by those who have lived around them as "Father, Son, and Holy Ghost" houses, because their three rooms are one on top of the other. These houses were built on the small back-streets for which Philadelphia is so well known, and served as servants' quarters for the large town-houses which were found on the wider streets, Pine, Locust, Spruce, and Broad.
