The following legend/myth tells that many years ago a merchant docked on the coast of Tenerife. To be precise, at the untamed beach of San Marcos near Icod de los Vinos. The merchant was a very greedy man and had only one goal in mind, namely to obtain the highly valuable "dragon's blood." That "dragon's blood" came from the mythical and magical dragon's blood tree.
But once he docked at the beach, he became fascinated by three beautiful young women. They were having the time of their lives bathing in the warm summer afternoon. The greedy merchant wanted to possess one of the beautiful Guanche women and tried to catch one. He was soon successful and had one in his grasp. He thought to himself how easy it was to capture this beauty. But he had no idea that this woman was smarter than he thought. Then the woman offered him - as a sign of friendship and admiration - enormous native fruits. These fruits were as if they were born in the garden of the Hesperides. The man gladly sat down and began to eat. He no longer paid attention, and the frightened woman took the opportunity to leap over a small ravine like a true gazelle.
After that, she hid among the trees, and the confused merchant tried to find her silhouette in the dense forest. Suddenly, a strange and terrifying tree loomed before him. The leaves were like swords, and the trunk moved like a threatening snake. Behind this astonishing apparition, the defenseless young woman was protected.
It is said that at that moment the fear-stricken merchant threw a sharp weapon at the "dragon tree" and thereby damaged the trunk of the dragon's blood tree of Icod de los Vinos. A reddish thick liquid - that looked like blood - began to drip from the wound. When the paralyzed man saw that, he fled as if he were being chased by the devil. Once he was back on board his ship, he lost himself in the ocean.
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