The Blood Tree
The tree with whose juice the Aztecs dyed their cotton of a fine dark red, and which their descendants tap today, has its blood legend: In Amatlan lived a prince whose delight it was to deck hinself in gold and precious stones. He had a corps of bandi ts in his employ, and whenever a merchant went from one town to another, his spies informed him, and, doffing the raiment of a prince, he rode with his company to a defile in the hills of the depth of the woods and there awaited his victim, who went on wi th empty saddle-bags and an aching heart.
When the prince had shared with his troopers, reserving the lion’s share for himself, he dismissed his band, all but a single slave, with whose help he buried his treasure. As the slave bent to place the plund er in the pit, the prince slew him, tumbling the corpse into the hollow and covering it, with his own hands, for the ghost of a person buried with treasure would guard it forever.
For years the prince pursued his evil course, but the reckoning came. A fter a successful foray he withdrew to bury the loot, after his fashion, but this time the slave who was to dig the pit turned suddenly upon his master and with a blow of a spade clove his skull. He flung the body into the cavity, covered it, and carried away the treasure. And presently blood trees grew above every pit where dishonest money had been hidden, but the sap of the tree that sprang from the grave of the robber prince was the deepest red of all.
From: Myths and Legends of Flowers, Trees, Fruits, and Plants, by Charles M. Skinner, c. 1911 by J.B. Lippincott Company
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