Werwolves - final thoughts

Something I discovered while studying werewolves, was how similar this idea is in some ways to that of witches. It might be thought of as the male counterpart, though the actual creature is very different. Supposedly witches were choosing to be them, while werewolves have no choice. In both cases people were murdered for 'being' them, and it was used as a tool of persecution. I wonder what it says that the usually female 'witch' has been thought to have chosen her supernatural affliction while the man was simply cursed. In the highly patriarchal world that persecuted these people, was it thought that men were more helpless of any problem because they were more understandable by other men, while women must have been calculating because their 'motives' were not understood. Of course plenty of women were murdered for being werewolves despite that not being very accurate to the legend.
If the 'curse' of being a werewolf has to do with sexual aggression, no wonder it is applied to men more in fiction, but women could be accused of it in real life. Most of the tales we read now are adaptations of stories that were told by word of mouth, so they have been adapted to modern audiences. The author would change details that might be too strange, such as a female werewolf. People would find it hard to accept a female sexual predator, not only because it happens less often in real life, but common thought still does not think that women have much of any sexual desire, let alone enough to become a 'monster' over it.
So why did women get accused of being werewolves in real life then? In mob behavior people are somehow more able to believe things they would find impossible in fiction, particularly if it matches a belief they already have, like not liking the person accused. Witches were often accused of having sex with demons or the devil himself, any aberrant sexual behavior in women, (or behavior at all), was not acceptable, so it was a good way to get someone burned at the stake.
Because my books of physiognomy lateness at the library have delayed that topic, I am going to read more about werewolves by briefly reading over a book called the Curse of the Werewolf: Fantasy, Horror and the Beast Within by Chantal Bourgault Du Coudray. (Available here on Google Books.)