The beginning of Kedungbulus Village, maybe some people don’t even know the local villagers. According to sources from previous people, the origins of Kedungbulus Village began in the time of the Sunans. The founder of the village was named “Demang Nologuno” as a religious elder. Once upon a time, Kedungbulus Village was still forest and bushes. However, in the middle of the forest and bushes a spring appeared so large that it could not be stopped. Ki demang thinks that if the spring is left alone, this area could even become an ocean. Because of this concern, Ki Demang racked his brains on how to stop or make the spring smaller. He asked the guardians for help to solve the problem. After the arrival of the saints, the spring was filled with duk (part of the palm tree) and wood in the form of glugu, etc., which was very large in quantity. By the will of Almighty God, the spring can become smaller, and the place is now a spring with the name “Belik Gede”. It is said that according to the story of Belik Gede, according to the myth of the spring, there was a very large supernatural dragon waiting in wait. After this incident, Ki Demang Nologuno built a hut and prayer room around the spring. He and the students bathed and performed ablution in the spring. In fact, according to the story, when Ki Demang wanted to perform ablution and return to his hut, he climbed a rock that could walk like a turtle (feather). So the unnamed village was given the name “Kedungbulus”, which means the large spring which is now Sendang. Local people call it Kedung, and the rock he climbed on was like a turtle (bulus), and coincidentally there were still many of them in Kedungbulus Village. turtles in the rivers.Until now, if a well digger in the Kedungbulus area approaches a spring, the ground will sound like wood and right at the spring there are lumps of duk (part of palm sugar) so that residents are increasingly convinced that the story of the founding of the village is true. Now the village of Kedungbulus is busy, and before there was PAM, residents still bathed in Belik Gede. According to myth, if someone who is not native to the village bathes or performs rituals in the spring without permission, they will be disturbed/harmed. Now the place is sacred and a very large banyan tree stands.

Awal mula Desa Kedungbulus mungkin sebagian orang tidak tahu bahkan penduduk desa setempat. Menurut narasumber orang-orang terdahulu asal mula Desa Kedungbulus berawal pada zaman para Sunan. Pendiri Desa bernama “Demang Nologuno” sebagai sesepuh yang religius. Dahulu kala Desa Kedungbulus masih berupa hutan dan semak belukar. Namun di tengah-tengah hutan dan semak-semak tersebut muncul mata air yang sangat besar, sampai-sampai tak bisa terbendung. Ki demang berpikir jika mata air tersebut di biarkan bisa jadi wilayah tersebut bahkan daerah lain menjadi lautan. Karena kekhawatiran tersebut Ki Demang memutar otak bagaimana menghentikan atau membuat mata air itu menjadi kecil. Beliau meminta bantuan para wali untuk memecahkan masalah tersebut. Setelah kedatangan para wali, sumber mata air tersebut disumpal dengan duk (bagian dari pohon aren) dan kayu berupa glugu dll yang berjumlah sangat banyak. Atas kehendak Tuhan YME, sumber mata air tersebut bisa menjadi lebih kecil, dan tempat tersebut sekarang menjadi sebuah sendang dengan nama “Belik Gede”. Konon menurut cerita Belik Gede menurut mitos mata air tersebut ada penunggu seekor ular naga ghaib yang sangat besar. Setelah kejadian tersebut Ki Demang Nologuno mendirikan pondok dan mushola disekitar sendang. Beliau dan para santri jika mandi dan melakukan wudhu di sendang tersebut. Bahkan menurut cerita ketika Ki Demang jika mau melakukan wudhu dan kembali ke pondoknya beliau menaiki sebuah batu yang bisa berjalan layaknya kura-kura (bulus). Sehingga desa belum bernama tersebut diberi nama “Kedungbulus”, yang artinya sumber mata air yang besar yang kini menjadi Sendang orang sekitar menyebut Kedung, dan batu yang dinaiki oleh beliau yang seperti kura-kura (bulus), dan kebetulan di Desa Kedungbulus dulu masih banyak kura-kura di sungai-sungai.Sampai saat ini jika penggali sumur di wilayah Kedungbulus sudah mendekati mata air, tanah akan berbunyi seperti kayu dan tepat di mata air tersebut terdapat gumpalan duk (bagian dari aren) sehingga warga semakin yakin bahwa cerita berdirinya desa memang benar. Kini desa Kedungbulus menjadi ramai, dan sebelum ada PAM warga masih mandi di Belik Gede. Menurut mitos jika ada orang bukan asli kelahiran desa jika mandi atau melakukan ritual di sendang tanpa ijin maka akan diganggu/celaka. Kini tempat tersebut dikeramatakan dan berdiri pohon beringin yang sangat besar.

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