`  The Faust tale has undergone numerous revisions, the one where Faust asscends to heaven is Goethe's, which reflects a philosophy where man's desire to ascend (ie. increase his power and knowledge through reason) is rewarded (in the case of Goethe's Faust, with heaven). Goethe wrote in the 19th century, and thus his Faust has little to do with the development of ``witchcraft`` as the entire furor surrounding witches for over 100 years. I've changed the ending referenced in this article to the ``original``, which appeared in the text translated from German in 1592 by ``P. F. Gent``. As it is much more illustrative of the fact that witchcraft had developed into the serious offence that it was considered during the various witch trials between the 13th and 16th century. The P. F. Gent edition, for example, ends with the warning that, the readers of Faust's tale ought, ``to be careful of their vocation, and to be at defiance with all devilish workes, as God hath most precisely forbidden, to the end we should not invite the devil as a guest, nor giue him place as that wicked Faustus hath done``. Revealing the original role of the tale as an instruction against sorcery (in addition to entertainment).   `