Also for Caladan.
You're partly correct in saying "Christianity gave Satan the pointy-horned face".
Since you raked this up, you'll need to learn the history. Basically, there was a medieval European concept (which Martin Luther, of Reformation fame, believed) that by ridiculing an enemy, one would make the enemy defeat himself.
Lots of historical examples of that theory failing badly, I'll give a few:
- in WW1, Tommies were actually told that the Germans (aka "Huns" to British, though they are actually descended from Visigoths) would "run back to Berlin, tail between legs, when the fist Tommy landed on the continent"
- Tommies just-prior-to and during WW2 oft talked of "tweaking the puny paperhanger's nose" referring to Hitler
- Both in 1965 and 1971, Pakistan had circulated the propaganda amongst its soldiers that India would be quickly defeated due to "weakness of Hindu soldier vs. strength of Muslim": in 1965, Pakistan was shoved-back (by an UNPREPARED India) with higer personnel and materiel losses; in 1971, decisively defeated in two-front war which it had started (by shelling areas of West Bengal, Assam, Meghalaya and Tripura as early as April 1971)
