A feather in your cap to hunting can be found in the cultures of highland peoples in Scotland and Wales where it is still customary for the hunter who kills the first woodcock to pluck out a feather and stick it in his cap. Other examples of feathers in caps which appear to be related to hunters and warriors can be found in mythological stories of historical figures such as the Austrian bailiff of Altdorf, Albrecht Gessler an aggressor who made Swiss national hero William Tell shoot an apple from the head of his son. Indeed, the Tyrolean hat of today, worn in the Austrian
Shooting an apple off one's child's head on his head, pierced through by the arrow, while Henning's bow was undrawn but there was another arrow between his teeth. Between archer and boy there was a wolf. In the Northumbrian ballad of "Adam Bell, Clym of the Clough, and Wyllyam of Cloudeslee", which was a source of Walter Scott's "Ivanhoe", William of Cloudeslee tells the king he will put an apple on his seven-year-old son's head and shoot it off at 120 paces: <poem>I have a sonne seven years old; Hee is to me full deere; I will tye him to a stake— All shall see him that