In a dream he is illness and an ailment of the humors: if he is black, it is black bile; if red, it is from the blood; if yellow, it is yellow bile; if white, it is phlegm. If he sees that the thief carried something off, the illness is attributed to the nature of what the thief took; if he did not carry anything off, an ailment will pass over him and he will recover quickly. If he seizes hold of the thief, he will find out the remedy for that illness and come upon it. The thief is a man who will assassinate a person and kill him, if he sees that he has stolen something. The thief is the Angel of Death, the arrival of a traveler, and a suitor.
Whoever sees a thief enter his home and take something while there is a sick person with him, that is the death of the sick person.
Whoever sees a thief enter a house and take nothing from it, a sick person there will be saved from his illness. Whoever kills a thief will be saved from an illness. If the thief enters a house in which there is an unmarried woman, he is a suitor who will ask for her hand. The thief is interpreted as a man of cunning and deceit. The thief is a man who hunts chickens and pigeons. The thief is a backbiter who seeks what is not his. The thief may signify a beast of prey, a snake, Satan and the self. If a person sees a thief and he is one of the people of knowledge, he will obtain a good portion of knowledge from him.