In the village of Plunturan, more precisely in the Suru sub-village there is a legend that is now beginning to be forgotten, and only a handful of people know about it. The legend is the legend of Ki Onggopati. Ki Onggopati was one of the figures who contributed to the Expansion of the Village of Plunturan at that time.
In tracing the story of the legend of Ki Onggopati in Plunturan village, we found that there are two versions of the legend of Ki Onggopati in Plunturan village.
The first version is a legend story that is spread in the general community of Plunturan village, this first version we got after conducting interviews with some residents who were originally from Plunturan Village.
After questioning them one by one, most residents said that they did not know about Ki Onggopati for sure, because they themselves had only heard of the legend from the Elders when they were young.
For the second version, the story of Ki Onggopati is obtained through a direct interview with mbah Bikan, one of the elders in the village of Plunturan who knows the ins and outs of the story and history of the village of Plunturan.
After interviewing him and analyzing the interview data, the difference between the two versions is the identity of Ki Onggopati and how he disappeared in Sawah Sepilang.
After conducting observations and interviews with several other residents, we found that the Ki Onggopati legend from mbah Bikan has a higher truth value.
Mbah Bikan's version of the Legend Story is as follows. Around 1800 AD, the Mataram King who was in power at that time asked one of his senopatas to gather and train troops to help Prince Dipenegoro's war against the Dutch. Senopati at the chosen time was named Onggopati.
The King ordered Ki Onggopati to choose a place in one of his territories to be used as the main base in preparing troops for the Dipenegoro prince's war. At that time, Mataram had mastered a part of Java, and Ponorogo was one of the territories controlled by the Mataram kingdom at that time.
The village chosen by Ki Onggopati was Plunturan Village, which at that time was still under the authority of Kyai Suto Penggolo and Kyai Satariman. After arriving in the village, Ki Onggopati recruited teenagers in the village of Plunturan to serve as a soldier to help the Dipenegoro War.
However, in 1830, Prince Dipenegoro was captured by the Dutch in Magelang. This arrest, immediately thwarted all the preparations of the troops made by Ki Onggopati up to now to assist in the Ki Onggopati war.
After Ki Onggopati heard the news about the arrest of Prince Diponegoro was heard by Ki Onggopati, he decided to disband the troops and chose to change professions as a cutting crew to help expand the village of Plunturan. Suru's clearing by him caused the area to be seen more broadly, so the area was named Mbanaran or which meant that it looked broader.
Aside from being a clearing of the Suru forest, he also works as a Farmer. His Rice Fields are believed to be in the southern region of Suru Hamlet. He also formed a family in his life in Plunturan Village.
However, one day he suddenly disappeared without a trace, after saying goodbye to his family to go down to his property. All residents have been looking for it to the corners of the fields but traces of its existence have not been found.
Since then, Ki Onggopati's rice field has been called by the name Sepilang which means Lost during Sepi. In their search for Ki Onggopati, the villagers found a small cave at the end of Sepilang more late on the east side of the rice field.
Some residents assume that the cave is the cave of the unseen natural gate that is connected with other caves on the other side, people who believe this assume the loss of Ki Onggopati is this.
But the statement was denied by Mbah Bikan, he said that the cave was just an ordinary cave with height and width of about one meter and did not have mystical power. However, this is different in Sapilang fields. He believes that the mystical rice field sapilangnya not the cave that is near the rice fields
After the incident of Ki Onggopati's disappearance in his rice field, there was no longer anyone to take care of the rice field. Mbah Bikan said that, the paddy fields had changed hands several times, but no one was strong and even died of taking care of the fields.
However, this does not happen to people who still have blood relations with Ki Onggopati. After many similar incidents, other than the descendants of Ki Onggopati no one dared to take care of the fields, and the fields were taken back by the descendants of Ki Onggopati.
