A letter from "Son of Sam" David Berkowitz to the New York Daily News. Herein, several allusions are made to pan-German pagant;Son of Sam" David Berkowitz to the New York Daily News. Herein, several allusions are made to pan-German pagan spiritual beliefs. The Wicked King Wicker alludes to the Druid Wicker man set aflame during the celebration of Samhain, the Celtic Lord of the Dead. The Wicker man was a hollow effigy filled with sacrificial victims and then set aflame. The "Son of Sam" alludes to Samhain