william tell shot the apple off the boy's head.
william tell shot the apple off the boy's head.
who shot the apple off the boy's head?
william tell
shooting an apple off one's child's head, also known as apple-shot (from german "") is a feat of marksmanship with a bow or crossbow that occurs as a motif in a number of legends in germanic folklore (and has been connected with non-european folklore). in the stith thompson motif index it is f661.3, described as "skillful marksman shoots apple from man's head" or "apple shot from man's head", though it always occurs in the form of the marksman being ordered to shoot an apple (or occasionally another smaller object) off his own son's head. it is best known as william tell's feat.
shooting an apple off one's child's head
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