Women Who Fly: Goddesses, Witches, Mystics, and other Airborne Females

From the beautiful apsaras of Hindu myth to the swan maidens of European fairy tales, tales of flying women--some carried by wings, others by rainbows, floating scarves, or flying horses--reveal both …

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