Legendary Tribes
- Arimaspi, a tribe of one-eyed men
- Hyperboreans, a mythical people who lived far to the north of Thrace
- Monopodes or Skiapodes, a tribe of one-legged Libyan men who used their gigantic foot as shade against the midday sun
- Panotii, a tribe of northern men with gigantic, body-length ears
- Pygmies, a tribe of one and a half foot tall African men who rode goats into battle against migrating cranes
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