If I were to guess, I'd say they were in a remote enough area that the werewolf was only a threat to animals, not people. Every full moon, the locals would all gather in the pub and wait it out while the werewolf was out doing its thing, killing sheep and whatever else. They didn't want to kill him because he was one of them. Small communities tend to close ranks and stick together, take care of their own. It was only when these foreign backpackers showed up during a full moon that human lives were put in harm's way, and the locals were plainly uncomfortable with that fact. That was what finally galvanized them to put an end to it.
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