I read a lot of old werewolf stories and myths, but that certainly wasn't in them. Mabey just in Itally or from your father. All the myths I read said the werewolf made a pact with the devil, a wolfskin belt (which usually came from the devil as well), or a ritual. They seemed pretty consistant, so I took that to be the Europian myth. Apperently I was wrong.my grandpa used to tell me a story about a shoe-maker of his little city in the centre part of Italy, who was thought to be a werewolf. The italian tradition about these monsters is always related to the full moon, to the silver (which can cure the "infection", not necessarely killing the... victim) and to water, which can extinct the "fever" burning inside their body during the wolf condition.
They also didnt have the gestalt form. Usually just monstrous wolves. Some times they had control and in other stories they didn't, but they always did evil deeds.
My version of the werewolf is diferent. It's a human that can transform their body into a wolf. No gestalt forms. The spirit is a mixture of both wolf and human. If they're in human form the human spirit is dominent and vice versa. The werewolf chooses wether to walk in paths of darkness or light just like a person. And the werewolf is not a killing machine, it sees things as a human and/or wolf would, which dont typicaly kill humans. I never have found someone who shares my views of the werewolf, probably never will.
P.S. I dont think the traditions of the moon, silver, and gestalt form came around until hollywood made The Wolfman. (correct me if I'm wrong)
(Darn hollywood, always messing things up
And welcome to the pack versipellis