It is likely that both kings were either fully mythological, a conflation of multiple pharaohs, or corrupted interpretations of real-life monarchs.
[1] According to legend, Pheron had been made blind for ten years after attacking the flooded Nile with a spear.
He was told by an oracle that the only cure would be to wash his eyes with the urine of a woman who was faithful to her husband.
[2] After the urine of several women failed, including that of his own wife, he finally found one woman who cured him.
[2] The next in line to the throne after Pheron was Proteus, whose legend ties in with Helen of the Trojan War.