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The parasite has a complicated life cycle: its eggs, hatching in warm water, develop larvae which enter snails, there develop to a second, man-attacking larval stage called cercariae or flukes.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thus the cercariae, escaping from the snail find themselves on the grass whereupon they promptly drop their tails and stick themselves to the grass-blades.

From The Eye of Osiris by Freeman, R. Austin (Richard Austin)

Then comes the unsuspecting sheep to take his frugal meal, and, cropping the grass swallows it, cercariae and all.

From The Eye of Osiris by Freeman, R. Austin (Richard Austin)

Thus the cercariae, escaping from the snail, find themselves on the grass, whereupon they promptly drop their tails and stick themselves to the grass-blades.

From The Vanishing Man by Freeman, R. Austin (Richard Austin)

Then comes the unsuspecting sheep to take his frugal meal, and, cropping the grass, swallows it, cercariae and all.

From The Vanishing Man by Freeman, R. Austin (Richard Austin)