We construct a family {Y s : s ∈ S} of cardinality 2 ℵ 0 of hereditarily indecomposable continua which are: (a) n-dimensional Cantor manifolds, for any given natural number n, or (b) hereditarily strongly infinite-dimensional Cantor manifolds, or else (c) countable-dimensional continua of every given transfinite inductive dimension, small or large, such that if h : Y s → Y s is an embedding then s = s and h is the identity.