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| aigil : 'The story of a great hero successfully shooting a small object from his child's head and then killing the tyrant who forced him to do it ... is an archetype present in several Germanic myths. The motif also appears in other stories from Norse mythology, in particular the story of Egil in the Thidreks saga, as well as in the stories of William of Cloudsley from England, Palnetoke from Denmark, and a story from Holstein. There is also an entry in the Malleus Maleficarum regarding witch-archers that bears a surprising resemblance to the story of William Tell, telling of a wizard shooting a penny off the cap of his little son, including mention of a prince tempting the marksman to attempt the feat, and the second arrow intended for the prince in the event of failure.' —source |
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