William Wymark Jacobs’ Monkey Paw

Origin
W. W. Jacobs was an English author who wrote novels and short stories. He is primarily remembered for his macabre story “The Monkey’s Paw”. Jacobs acquired the paw from a friend who told him it granted wishes, but not misshapen ones. He used the paw and almost got himself killed if he still didn’t have one wish left to use. Afterwards, he became apprehensive of it and wanted to dispose of it.

But, he was afraid of it disappearing and creating a fate worse than his for someone else. So, being a published author, he invented the story but kept the artifact and affects the same to draw someone in who knew what to do with the paw. Thusly, Warehouse agents caught wind of it, became suspicious and met him, taking the paw back to the Warehouse. It currently resides in Artie’s Office, mainly because Artie likes the story it was mentioned in.

Effects
The artifact is able to grant three wishes for every user, which could be anything they want. However, the wishes end up distorted from the original view and go wrong. If they want to clean up their mess, they many times have to use their remaining wishes, if there still are any.