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Women Who Fly: Goddesses, Witches, Mystics, and Other Airborne Females Kim van Alkemade Volpert guides readers through theFrom the beautiful apsaras of Hindu myth to the swan maidens of European fairy tales, stories of flying women some carried by wings, others by clouds, rainbows, floating scarves, and flying horses reveal the perennial fascination with and ambivalence about female power and sexuality. In Women Who Fly, Serinity Young examines the motif of the flying woman as it appears in a wide variety of cultures and historical periods, in legends, myths, rituals,