Sergeant-Major Morris is a character in the W. W. Jacobs short story, The Monkey's Paw.
He comes to visit his friends, the White family, after serving with the British Armed Forces in India. With him, he brought a monkey's paw that he said would grant them three wishes. But despite his warnings against using it, saying: "It had a spell put on it by an old fakir,"... "a very holy man. He wanted to show that fate ruled people's lives, and that those who interfered with it did so to their sorrow.", the family used it anyway to disasterous results.