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Brewer's: Wishing-cap
Fortunatus had an inexhaustible purse and a wishing-cap, but these gifts proved the ruin of himself and his sons. The object of the tale is to show the vanity of human prosperity.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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