Goethe’s Faust, Part One
The Witch in Faust
The witch’s kitchen contains a burning cauldron, fantastic implements and apes attending the fire. Faust recoils from the place even as he hopes it will remove thirty years from his life. The witch arrives through the chimney flame and confronts her visitors. Mephistopheles insists that she recognise him as her master, displaying the hierarchy behind the grotesque household.
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In the sources
Principal account
LiteraryThe witch’s kitchen contains a burning cauldron, fantastic implements and apes attending the fire. Faust recoils from the place even as he hopes it will remove thirty years from his life.
Further detail
LiteraryThe witch arrives through the chimney flame and confronts her visitors. Mephistopheles insists that she recognise him as her master, displaying the hierarchy behind the grotesque household.
Context & interpretation
This entry follows the character, setting or motif in Part One of Goethe’s drama as translated by Bayard Taylor. Its supernatural events and spoken claims belong to the play, rather than serving as historical biography or independently established accounts of spirits.
Original passages
Source 1
Faust
Full thirty years from my existenceOpen this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: Goethe’s Faust, Part One; active reader leaf 125
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- Edition
- IMJ-0088-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0088-E001-P0125
- Original scan leaf
- 126
- Recorded leaf number
- 126
- Current Reader position
- 122
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Source 2
Faust
thy Lord and MasterOpen this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: Goethe’s Faust, Part One; active reader leaf 132
Exact passage checked against active scan text and original-leaf mapping; scan line breaks normalised.
- Edition
- IMJ-0088-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0088-E001-P0132
- Original scan leaf
- 133
- Recorded leaf number
- 133
- Current Reader position
- 129
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- Source-preserving update confirmed
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