A childhood belief about easter bunny

i used to believe that the easter bunny was evil in every way and that he had fangs and would come and kill you if you were awake on the evening of holy saturday... and i thought the only way you could kill him was by chopping off his foot. then a new one would be born, BUT if you carried the foot around with you then no easter bunny could ever kill you again... hence the "lucky rabbits foot"... i was a stupid kid who put things together in the weirdest ways...