Hey! Here I am back with my Brazilian folklore/urban legend girls!
This one is based in the Mapinguari, a legend that comes from indigenous tribes in the Amazon region.
It is said that inside the forest lives a creature called Mapinguari, a giant covered in brown fur, with an eye on its forehead and a mouth on its bellybutton. For some, it does have fur but wears a tortoise-shell armor, but there's also the version where it's skin is like alligator leather.
According to the legend, some residents of the forest, when reaching advanced age, turn into Mapinguari, and would start living in remote areas of the forest by themselves.
This creature can shout in a similar way as hunters do. If someone answers, Mapinguari goes towards the victim, who ends up being killed. It is also capable of swelling the steel on shotgun barrels when it blows on it. While it walks through the forest, it screams, breaks twigs and throws down trees, leaving behind a path of destruction. Some versions say that the Mapinguari only roams around in the daylight and sleeps at night, but others say that it only does so in holidays.
Another block of text, sorry y'all, but there it is