William Tell Apple from the Mythical Fruit Series

Apples
The apple. One of the most famous of all fruit that can symbolise anything from power, death, seduction, trickery, accuracy and beauty in the mythologies of Britain, Switzerland, Greece, Ireland, Norse and pagan believers.
The latin word for apple - málum, and the latin word for evil - malum, are separated only by a mere mark of punctuation. Think seduction, lust, and sin wth Adam and Eve in The Book of Genesis. Compare the similarities of this to the story of Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs (by the Brothers Grimm). Then there is the story of William Tell and the apple of accuracy, Atalanta and the Golden Apples of Greece, the Irish Connla who dines on apples to obtain everlasting youth, and the pagan pattern of the apple seeds that form the perfect pentagram resembling the four elements.

The Story of William Tell - a Swiss myth
The people of Switzerland were not always as free and happy as they are today. Many years ago a proud tyrant, called Gessler, ruled over them and made their life bitter.
One day a man called William Tell rode into the village of Altdorf with his son by his side. He was reputed to be the best crossbowman in the region. Gessler set up a tall pole in the public square, with his own cap on top, and ordered every man to bow down before it.
But William Tell would not do it. When Gessler heard this, he was very angry - he was afraid that other men would rebel against him. In order to show that disrespect would not be tolerated, he ordered William Tell's boy to stand in the public square with an apple on his head; and then he bade William to shoot the apple with one of his arrows.
William fitted the arrow to his bow, took aim, and struck the apple right in the centre. As he was turning away, an arrow which he had hidden under his coat dropped to the ground. "Fellow!" cried Gessler, "what mean you with this second arrow?" "Tyrant!" was Tell's proud answer, "this arrow was for your heart if I had hurt my child.”
Gessler was very angry and ordered his guards to take William to the prison, but William escaped and killed the evil tyrant, thus setting the country free. He became the symbol for struggle for political and individual freedom.

Lampworked (Torchworked) Glass
Size 20cm diameter