Definition of "wishing-cap" [wishing-cap]

• A cap by wearing which one obtains whatever one wishes. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "He looked upon the wishing-cap, but surely no one could turn into anything better than a hero, and Siegfried was already a hero."
• "Alberich forced Mimi to make for him a strange wishing-cap."
• "In Grimm, No. 197, which is distantly related to our story, the hero cheats two giants out of a wishing-cap over which they are quarrelling."