Two of these people (*) mark a house's front door and chip out a chunk from its front steps, but are foiled when all other houses are defaced similarly.
A boy climbs up a walnut tree and shakes the branches to feed seven of these people while eating nothing himself. One of these people arrives at a diabetic merchant's house just in time to stop him from beating his slave girl. A cautionary tale about a weaver who dies trying to imitate a mountebank by jumping off a high wall, is told to a man victimized by one of these people and his monkey. After a group of these people murder a man and quarter his body, a tailor is hired to stitch the pieces back together. Two of these people (*) mark a house's front door and chip out a chunk from its front steps, but are foiled when all other houses are defaced similarly. After pouring boiling oil on several of these people hiding in jars, Morgiana performs a sword dance at a dinner so that she can plunge a dagger into the heart of their leader. These people store their treasure in a cave that opens when the words "Open Sesame" are said. For 10 points, name these criminals, forty of whom harass Ali Baba in a tale from the Arabian Nights.
A boy climbs up a walnut tree and shakes the branches to feed seven of these people while eating nothing himself.
thieves [accept word forms; accept synonyms] 