My babysitter told me the Reason people would "watch you like a hawk" was because hawks loved the taste of toddler meat.. and would swoop down when hungry and carry you off..
A childhood belief about birds

others believed things like this
- When I was six my sister told me Meat Pies were made from mashed up rats...to this day I can't eat a Meat Pie.— Jamie
- When you are very poor you "can't make end's meat." End's meat is some sort of cheap very low quality meat.— Betty
- I used to think that aeroplane carry people to a destination which located on top of the clouds — kaizen7
- my brother used to believe that Ground Chuck meat was actually groundhog meat. Anon
- When I asked my dad how bees collect honey he told me that they carry around little tiny buckets. — Shana
- I believed that ham was mouse meat, because it was pink and my dad told me so. — Zo