There's a legend like that. A traveler is attacked in the woods by a
wolf & cuts off it's paw. He places it in a pouch & continues. When
he reaches the shelter of some nobleman, he tells his story & tries
to show him the paw, but when he pulls it out, it's a dainty, feminine
hand with a wedding band on it. The nobleman recognizes the hand
& rushes upstairs to find his wife bandaging her wound. She confesses
to being a werewolf & is burned at the stake. It was on the history
channel during the days close to Halloween, think that was a french legend.
I actually prefer vampires to werewolves.
Vampires are always the cool monsters.
I've never thought of my short stories as horror
stories, but others find them creepy... *shrugs*
I based it on a medieval legend--not the exact same one you describe, but similar. Apparently there were several versions of the same story.
Here's a short vampire one I wrote on the spur of the moment.
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"Dracula's Surprise"
Dracula arose from his coffin and stepped into the darkness. To his pleasant
surprise, the pitch-black sky was the darkest even his long memory could recall.
He spread his bat-wings, relishing the thought of the hunt before him.
Suddenly the Sun passed out of its shadow and incinerated him.
In the senility of his 600-year-old mind, he had forgotten that today was the
day of the solar eclipse.