My word!

Something in the Indescribable today: the legend of a man-eating bird!

Apparently the Maoris had this legend: a raptor big enough to catch and kill a child or small adult, called a "Haast's Eagle," or "Te Hokioi."

It's been extinct for 500 years, which might come as a relief, but even so I shouldn't wonder that such a creature would have been a truly amazing sight. Let's face it, a bird with a 3m wingspan would have been seriously scary. Here be dragons, and all that.