hifeli

Updated: May 29, 2025

So he tied Hifeli to a tree and went in search of his father to whom he told the misfortune that had befallen him. Whereupon father and son went in search of the eagle and the elder Tell slew it with an arrow from his crossbow. And on this trip he taught his son to show no fear of the high precipices they had to skirt or of the gulfs that had to be crossed by fallen trees.

Clayton Edwards - A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines: A Record of High Endeavour and Strange Adventure from 500 B.C. to 1920 A.D.

This cow was named Hifeli, and wore a sweet toned bell about her neck. Driving a cow over the mountain paths was a difficult and dangerous undertaking, and one that Tell had never entrusted to either of his children, but as his son William seemed to be able and venturesome he was allowed one day as a great pleasure to drive Hifeli and her calf up to the mountain pasture.

Clayton Edwards - A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines: A Record of High Endeavour and Strange Adventure from 500 B.C. to 1920 A.D.

While the boy was driving Hifeli over this place, with a sudden rush a fierce eagle swooped down to attack the calf, beating the air with its wings to drive the calf to the edge of the precipice, and although the lad struck at the bird of prey with his mountain staff until the air was filled with feathers it was to no avail.

Clayton Edwards - A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines: A Record of High Endeavour and Strange Adventure from 500 B.C. to 1920 A.D.