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The Witch is a recurring boss enemy in the Left 4 Dead series of video games developed by Valve. At first glance she appears to be a thin and lanky pale skinned scantily clad human woman with platinum blonde hair and red eyes. However, the extent of her Green Flu mutations become apparent when looking at her hands, which have grotesquely mutated into very long and sharp blood-stained claws. She is the only Special Infected enemy that is not playable in the Versus modes of Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2.

Unlike the other members of the infected horde, the Witch is initially non-hostile, kneeling on the ground at night or wandering around covering her eyes during the day. During both of these actions, she weeps and cries loudly which can alert survivors to her presence. If the survivors get to close to her or if they shine their flashlights on her, this will begin to agitate her, shifting from crying in apparent sorrow to howling in violent anger. If she becomes angry enough, she will frantically run toward the one who disturbed her and clash at them with their claws, instantly taking them to the ground or killing them outright on the hardest difficulty. Because of her high amount of lethal threat and surprising amount of resilience to gunfire, smart survivors will attempt to avoid her by quietly moving past her, although this is not always an option available due to the randomization of where she kneels down.