Apple-sniffers/The Gangines of the Hereford Cathedral Mappa Mundi

From Apples & People, the tale of a community that lived solely on the smell of apples:

"Amongst some fifty-five strange races depicted on the extraordinary Mappa Mundi are a mythical people described as the Gangines. They appear in India, to the top-left of the map.  A legend reads:

Solinus: Gangis fontem qui acolunt solo vivunt odore pomorum silvestrium; qui si fetorem senserint, statim moriuntur

This is a paraphrased extract from the third century writings of Roman geographer Gaius Julius Solinus. In his Collectanea rerum memorabilium or Polyhistor he describes the wonders of the world, including the inhabitants of India. This legend translates as 'A people who live near the source of the Ganges live only on the smell of wild apples; if they smell something offensive, they immediately die.'"