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Here is a list of mythical creatures beginning with this letter and I am constantly gathering information from each continent and continually updating.

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Abarimon (India)

Abarimon or antipode in mythology are people whose feet are turned backwards, but in spite of this handicap were able to run at great speed. In Europe, this tribe was first described by Pliny the Elder, in his book, Natural History (VII 11), who considered them to be native to India. A similar tale is recounted by Aulus Gellius in Attic Nights.

They lived side by side with wild animals and attempts to capture them failed because they were so savage. Pliny refers to information that originates from Baiton, which was Alexander the Great's Land Surveyor. Baiton says 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.