Legend says King Lear's father noted this city's healing waters when leprous pigs were cured by wallowing there
... Day 6: Yorkminster Cathedral, Barley Hall, York City Walls, Creswell 
Crags .... A legend tells of Prince Bladud, father of King Lear, who caught leprosy 
and, ... One of the pigs also contracted leprosy but was cured after wallowing in 
the... [DOC] [TLE] THE VALUE OF WATER - EuroGeoSurveys [PAR] thermal and mineral waters were in Europe, .... their drinking water from springs 
in the mountains.