[Germany, Ostfriesland] Odd werewolf legends

[Roodhoor]

Trying to translate this as accurate as possible for me.
Got these from a book which deals with the myths of...well....in fact I think it's about all myths that have been written down. Beginning sometimes in the 1500's.
Doing this piece by piece, starting with a general view on werewolves:

Werewolves are men, that -often against theirs will, but they're just determined to- long for living flesh like a wolf. Then they are being transformed or transform themselves, via putting a magic belt on (made from wolfskin). Than they not only loose their human appearance, but also get the mind of the predator. But always the the Human suspects the coming change. So he can take preventive actions, alert his surroundings and give people a deterrent, in case he strikes on them as a werewolf.
One can distract a werewolf for example, by throwing a red drapery or piece of clothing at him. He has to rend it, and the victim might escape or the werewolf got exhausted by this.
Werewolves are thought to defend the fields of rye against witches and children who want to pluck cornflowers.

[Roodhoor]

1) The red underskirt (written down ~1875)

One cloudy day in fall, a happily married Werewolf drove together with his wife through a forest. When they reached a stretch of way where there was a high earth wall along the road, the man suddenly stopped and handed the reins over to his wife, asking her to wait for a short time. At the same time he pointed out, that many predators lived in this forest and if one of them would come near, she should not fear.
In any case she should have her red underskirt at hand to slap it in the face of the predator so it could take it's anger out on it.
Just having said this, he lept of the carriage and vanished behind the wall.
The woman stayed in the carriage as being told and had her red underskirt ready in her hands as her husband has told her - she didn't quite believe in any approaching danger, but thought her husband has made a joke, because he often did.

Real soon her attention was drawn to the wall, she heard a really scaring growl, a surpressed howling and a second later a horrid wolf was standing at the top of the earth wall.
With just one dart he reached the carriage, opened his mouth and was about to bite the woman and rip her limb to limb.
In the moment when the wolf was rearing up, the woman throw her big, heavy underskirt over his head. The wolf entangled itself in it and bit it until it was torn to shreds.
Satisfied it returned over the earth wall, carefully having an eye on his surrounding.

After a while the man returned, took the reins and continued to drive down the road. He looked a bit pale and disordered, but there was nothing else to notice about him.
When he turned around to speak to his wife, to her great affright she noticed some piece of red clothing from her underskirt between his teeth.
Now she had the assurance that her husband was a werewolf.
Only a few weeks later, her dead bodie was found.

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I live some few hundred meter away from the moor. The lake in it got it's name after this tale: Wolfslake.

[Roodhoor]

2) Hungry again (written down ~ 1867)

Three young men were reaping.
By the time of the siesta one laid down to take a nap, the second one just pretended to do so. When the third one believed his buddies to be asleep, he took on a belt and changed into a wolf.
Strolling down to the nearest feedlot (?spelling?), killed a foal, ate it and removed his belt, returning as a human to his buddies.
When they went home that evening, the Werewolf complained about pangs of hunger.
"What ?", said the man who had observed him," you've eaten a complete foal and you're hungry again ?"
" You should have told me earlier", said the Werewolf, " than I woul have proceeded with you."

[Roodhoor]

3) The strong Reaper (written down ~ before 1960)

Once, when it was a very rough time, one of the small people of Seehusen (near Bremen) came to Ostfriesland as a hired reaper.
He told us this:
They had a strong guy in their group and no one could match with him when reaping. But when all of them were on the fields and having lunch he just ate a little bit. Then he vanished for a while. Later on, always a piece of cattle was missing.
The man had changed into a Wolf and killed the cattle, and because of that he got his strength. He was a true Werewolf.

[Uniform Two Six]

Hey, you would probably know this. Supposedly there is a region in Germany in which the werewolf's famous weakness isn't silver, but instead is iron (or maybe cold iron). I remember reading something like that a while back. Isn't there a legend about that somewhere in western Germany, like in the Black Forest area?

[vrikasatma]

Werewolves are thought to defend the fields of rye against witches and children who want to pluck cornflowers.

Yes — these are the Benandanti. It's said that St. Christopher was one of them.