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Switzerland’s most famous archer shot fruit off his own son’s head on 18th November, 1307. Or did he? ‘Chronicon Helveticum’ by Aegidius Tschudi, from which the date comes, claims to be a serious historical account, but was written roughly 200 years later – and not published until nearly 200 years after that. And the myth bears remarkable …