What Am I Riddles

Question: There is a story that a man and not a man
Saw and did not see a bird and not a bird
Perched on a branch and not a branch
And hit him and did not hit him with a rock and not a rock.

[How is this possible?]

Question: Alone I am 24th, with a friend I am 20. Another friend and I am unclean.What am I?

Question: We hurt without moving. We poison without touching. We bear the truth and the lies. We are not to be judged by our size.What are we?

Question: My first is often at the front door.
My second is found in the cereal family.
My third is what most people want.
My whole is one of the united states.

What am I?

Question: I'm not a pool, a tree, a slave, a website, or a shirt.

What am I?