In "The feather pillow" by Horacio Quiroga when the parasites don't have a human to feed on they usually are small, they are parasites of feathered creatures. This parasite, in particular, has been feeding on Alicia's blood, that is why it became so monstrous. We learn about this in the last parragraph of the story.
This seems like it belongs more in the catagory of history but if the author is Thomas Jefferson, or any president from Jefferson until the Civil War than they are most likely for it
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