Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-35711173-20180917001637/@comment-9041013-20180918104720

Everything you'd described there is basically a "Jaguar problem" South American farmers have been having for decades now, if not centuries. It doesn't have to be a supernatural creature, but you seem to be going the route of Native American Were-animal lore.

Give the transformation an original spin, I guess, make it about Shamanism or folk magic. Say, a modern descendant of native shamans who is pissed at a bunch of local people uses his powers to transform into a beast and does his thing.