She thought about how folks believed that if you ducked your head in oak stump water, your straight hair would grow out curly. She had always wanted to try it, but Ma forbade it, and besides, oak stump water stunk sour.

The primary scripture in Zoroastrianism is the Avesta.

Not Rome, but Ierusalem should be the Mother Church.

The middle of a circle is the point which has the same distance to every point of circle.