may very well reflect ancient popular traditions about Samson, and, if so, they suggest that Samson was a wild man of sorts in other tellings of his legend—we should bear in mind that, in all likelihood, the account in Judges 13–16 represents only one telling of this legend. Incidentally, there are other correspondences between postbiblical Samson traditions and particular European wild man traditions. In regard to the medieval wild man’s penchant for wielding tree trunks and saplings, there is a