Witch

A Witch is an upcoming ranged mob. It will be the second hostile ranged mob to spawn in the Overworld - the first being the skeleton. They make the same sounds as the player, enderdragon, and the wither.

Witches look basically like villagers. The main differences between the witches and the villagers are the hats and moving noses. Witches also wear purple clothing and they have purple eyes.

Combat
As of snapshot 12w38a, it uses splash potions to fight the player, such as poison, weakness, damage, and slowness. It does not burn in sunlight and when set on fire, drinks a potion of fire resistance. Upon death, witches rarely drop potions of healing and fire resistance, but it is unknown if they drop potions that have negative effects or other potions with positive effects. Witches are immune to splash potions.

Trivia

 * Though witches are modeled after villagers, they do not share any attributes of villagers, such as utilizing housing. Furthermore, Iron Golems will attack Witches as most other hostile mobs.
 * The texture for witches is located in the Villager sub-folder, despite most of their relation being cosmetic.