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Abarimon

The Abarimon are a mythological people whose feet are turned backwards, but despite this, can run at great speeds. They are mentioned in early texts like Natural History (Pliny the Elder) or Attic Nights (Aulus Gellius). 

The Abarimon were hard to capture, not just because of their great speed, but also because they were so savage. They lived side by side with wild animals  in a great valley of Mount Imaus (now called the Himalayan Mountains in Pakistan). 

In Pliny’s texts he makes a reference to information that originated from Baiton (the land surveyor for Alexander the Great) which states that the Abarimons could only breathe the air in their own domestic valleys. Because of the special quality of air, which meant if it was breathed for a long period of time, it would be impossible to breathe any other type of air.