Also 8 woolesaw, 9 oulasser. [Mosquito wulasha.] Among people of African descent in Central America, an evil spirit or demon.
1757. R. Hodgson, Mosquito Territ. (1822), 46. A kind of priests called Sookies, who … pretend to deal with an evil spirit called Woolesaw.
1827. O. W. Roberts, Voy. Centr. Amer., 267. Their great evil spirit is the ‘woolsaw’ or devil.
1842. T. Young, Residence on Mosquito Shore, vi. 72. After sun-set a Sambo will not venture out alone, lest the Oulasser should carry him away.
