1618 S. Garey Short Disswasive from Popery in 261 These Soule-thiefes..put out the Candle of knowledge, the Scripture.
1889 W. B. Yeats (1934) 195 Perhaps they are evil-spirits, these soul-thiefs, and not fairies at all.
1990 C. Baxter in W. Abrahams (1991) 107 They'd never had restless sleepless nights, the urgent wordless unexplainable wrestling matches with shadow bands of soul-thieves.