<P> Henning Wulf, or von Wulfen, of Wewelsfleth in Holstein sided with Count Gerhard in 1472 and was banished by King Christian I of Denmark . In a folk tale, the king had him shoot an apple off his son's head, and a window in the Wewelsfleth church depicted the boy with an apple 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 . </P> <P> 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: </P> <P> I have a sonne seven years old; </P> <P> Hee is to me full deere; I will tye him to a stake--All shall see him that bee here--And lay an apple upon his head, And goe six (score) paces him froe, And I myself with a broad arrowe </P>

Shooting the apple on the man's head