Shooting an apple off one's child's head of the story is in the legend of William Tell, supposedly happening to start off the Swiss revolution, written first in the 15th-century "White Book of Sarnen", then in Aegidius Tschudi's 16th-century "Chronicon Helveticum", and later the basis for Friedrich Schiller's 1804 play. Tell is arrested for failing to bow in respect to the hat that the newly appointed Austrian "Vogt", Albrecht Gessler, has placed on a pole, and Gessler commands him to shoot an apple off his son's head with a single bolt from his crossbow. After splitting the apple with the single shot (supposedly on November 18, 1307),
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