Strange Story Remembered

I was going through my old Childcraft books, and thought of a story I once read. This wasn't a fanfic, this was included in a book of stories that I read once.

There was some sort of creature that may have been female. It attached itself to a guy, and nobody really noticed. It had hooks in its hands and burrowed into the guy's back. She claimed she owned him now.

He got sicker and sicker--eventually, I think someone may have saved him, by tearing the creature off his back. This may have been an African legend.

It was probably a book on legends that I checked out from the library, or it could have been a book of horror stories for kids. Does that synopsis sound familiar to anyone else?

Strange Story Remembered

I was going through my old Childcraft books, and thought of a story I once read. This wasn't a fanfic, this was included in a book of stories that I read once.

There was some sort of creature that may have been female. It attached itself to a guy, and nobody really noticed. It had hooks in its hands and burrowed into the guy's back. She claimed she owned him now.

He got sicker and sicker--eventually, I think someone may have saved him, by tearing the creature off his back. This may have been an African legend.

It was probably a book on legends that I checked out from the library, or it could have been a book of horror stories for kids. Does that synopsis sound familiar to anyone else?