Folktale

The Origin of The Lake Ngebel

In ancient time a villagers were hunting to the forest , that day they not get the game and in headed back resident of the village met to snake the large . Ferial think hunt for the snake as their game and become a repast to feast held in the village .

At the time of the village people enjoy the party going on in her village , and there came a little boys who berpenampilan strange and putrid-smelling came into the village to require a little food to villagers were doing a party . However , villagers with haughty refused to make the food and they also expel the child is from a party them for the appearance of a party and the smell disrupt them .

The child also went and met a grandmother. He also asked for a little food to Grandma. Humbly the grandmother ever gave the child food. Once full, the boy spoke to the grandmother later heard an explosion when it's tough grandmother up mortar and centong Rice's grandmother bring. And after saying the word that the little boy was gone. Not how long after the departure of the child is a bang sound very hard, the grandmother had followed the orders of small children. The village housing residents were entirely inundated three villages which are almost entirely submerged by water. Only the grandmother who survived the disaster.

Allegedly the child is an incarnation of the serpent that are hunted by villagers, because of the nature of the greedy villagers made the village sank and became the LAKE NGEBEL. Mortar and centong rice that saved the grandmother is rumored to still exist today and become one of the tourist objects of interest in Ponorogo. And every year the villagers around Lake doing a ritual to ask for safety on the Lake.