[Giovanna Clairval]

Originally Posted by kythe

What about small wings that flutter quickly, like bees? Would it be possible to lift a human off the ground?

Absolutely not... unless the human is as small and light as a bee, but I so agree with Dave! This is not SF; this is Fantasy, and you can do whatever you want.

You just decide that people can fly (but when they do, you add a feeling of strain on the muscles at the waist, something that can be irksome, or some other physical sensation but the wind in one's hair LOL, just to add a minimum of credibility), and you go happily about your winged humans (very tall, really tiny, with two, three, ten sets of wings).

What matters is that you make it believable within your frame of reference, and, once you have defined a law (physical or methaphysical) you stick to it.
It is consistency that matters, not scientific exactitude.

Thank you Kythe for the lovely image that fluttered into my mind when your bee-people passed me by.

And damsel-fly people as well...