In Poland and Ukraine there is a vampiric creature, a huge bird with a child’s face, that is called a latawiec. The word latawiec translates to mean “vampire falcon”. It flies down from the sky and with a blood-freezing shriek grabs up children, livestock, and women; it carries its prey back to its roost to consume.

Source: Bonnerjea, Dictionary of Superstitions and Mythology, 148; Jobes, Dictionary of Mythology, 975; Lecouteux, History of the Vampire