@bojacobs "The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of
Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn." -- Martin Luther

"The devill . . the prowde spirite . . cannot endure to be
mocked." -- Thomas More

Both quoted at the start of CS Lewis's Screwtape Letters (which was itself dedicated to JRR Tolkien). The tactic continues to be effective after literal centuries.