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A363839 Numbers in the witch's multiplication table (German: "Hexeneinmaleins") in Goethe's Faust. 0

%I #28 Jun 24 2023 05:43:34

%S 1,10,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,1,10,0,1

%N Numbers in the witch's multiplication table (German: "Hexeneinmaleins") in Goethe's Faust.

%C In German, the witch declaims the following magic spell to Faust:

%C Du mußt verstehn!

%C Aus Eins[1] mach' Zehn[10],

%C Und Zwey[2] laß gehn,

%C Und Drey[3] mach' gleich,

%C So bist du reich.

%C Verlier' die Vier[4]!

%C Aus Fünf[5] und Sechs[6],

%C So sagt die Hex',

%C Mach' Sieben[7] und Acht[8],

%C So ist's vollbracht:

%C Und Neun[9] ist Eins[1],

%C Und Zehn[10] ist keins[0].

%C Das ist das Hexen-Einmal-Eins[1]!

%C (The numbers in "[...]" do not apppear in the original.)

%C Literal translation into English:

%C You must understand!

%C From one make ten,

%C And two let go,

%C And three make equal,

%C So you are rich.

%C Lose the four!

%C From five and six,

%C So says the witch,

%C Make seven and eight,

%C So it is finished:

%C And nine is one,

%C And ten is none.

%C This is the Witch's one-times-one!

%C .

%C From _Peter Luschny_, Jun 23 2023: (Start)

%C Sometimes the witch's one-times-one is interpreted as a construction guide for a magic square, which describes a transformation like this:

%C 1 2 3 4 9 2

%C 4 5 6 -> 3 5 7

%C 7 8 9 8 1 6

%C (End)

%H Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust - Der Tragödie erster Teil. <a href="https://de.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Seite:Faust_I_(Goethe)_161.jpg&amp;oldid=-">Page 161</a> and <a href="https://de.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Seite:Faust_I_(Goethe)_162.jpg&amp;oldid=-">page 162</a>. Tübingen: Cotta, 1808. Digital full-text edition at Wikisource, version of Aug 18 2016.

%H Poetry in Translation, <a href="https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/German/FaustIScenesIVtoVI.php#Scene_VI">Faust Scene VI</a>, translated by A. S. Kline, 2003.

%H Wikipedia (German), <a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexeneinmaleins">Hexeneinmaleins</a>.

%Y Cf. A080992, A108579.

%K nonn,word,fini,full

%O 1,2

%A _Georg Fischer_, Jun 23 2023

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