Head Witch

The **Head Witch**, or the **Queen Witch**, is a powerful witch-like entity who served as the leader of a tribe of primitive witches.

## Appearance

The witch is a tall, silver-haired, slender woman. Although she has a human-like figure, the witch shows no sign of being one, for her face has no visible mouth or nose, just big green glowing eyes. She can create a mouth full of sharp teeth when she expresses anger. Her skin is pale white and she wears a black dress.

Through advanced witchcraft, she's able to shapeshift into other beings, one being a tall shadowy creature with green lines over its body going from head to legs, one single green eye on the face and long horns.

She can also turn into a giant wolf with glowing green eyes.

## Personality

The Witch's motivations are ambiguous, but she is shown granting her coven children to raise; whether this is due to benevolence or a darker purpose remains unknown. She is otherwise quick to anger and punishes dissenters.

She is likely motivated to preserve and protect her coven, though it is possible she has some sort of animosity towards men, using their life energy to create new daughters for her coven to be raised as new members. She doesn't appear to be maternal since she gives the children to her followers to be raised by them instead of raising the children herself.

Despite seeming cold and cruel, she does seem to care for her Pteranodon steed, becoming enraged when Lula kills it.

## Abilities

* **Witchcraft:** As the leader of her coven, the Head Witch is skilled in magic, using various spells that can manipulate reality to her liking.
	+ **Shapeshifting:** She can shapeshift into any creature, including a demon and a large wolf.
	+ **Life Absorption:** When the rune symbols are placed on the male sacrifice, the witch, after transforming into her demon-like form, can create a mystic snake spell to go inside the male and absorb his life essence, mummifying it afterwards.
	+ **Child Creation:** After absorbing the life force of her male victims in demonic form, she instantly creates a human baby girl in her womb and pulls it out to give to one of her followers.
	+ **Mind Control:** The Head Witch can control a Pterodactyl as her mount and can even see things through its own eyesight.

## History

Before the arrival of Spear and Fang, the Queen Witch had been creating offspring for her followers from using life energy from cavemen that were abducted by the witches and use them for the witches' sacrifice rituals.

On the night when Spear and Fang were traveling in the jungle, the witches are performing their painful ritual with a screaming bearded caveman that they have captured. The head witch soon arrives on her Pteranodon mount flying in the air. After the Pteranodon is perched on a hill, the witch walks towards the caveman where she morphs into a demon-like form. In this form, the Head Witch absorbs the essence of the caveman, reducing him to a mummified husk, and uses the essence to create a newborn girl whom she gives to one of her followers for her to raise. At that moment, her Pteranodon sees Spear and Fang spying on them through its eyes and alerts their presence to the witch. The head witch transforms back and commands her followers to attack them with the intent on capturing Spear as her next sacrifice.

Upon nightfall the following day, the Head Witch returns to perform the ritual on Spear. Before she could sacrifice him, she and the other witches hear the Pteranodon's screeches and watched as Lula, originally one of the head witch's followers, kills it at its perch using Spear's spear, then sets him free from the Stonehenge using a mind-controlled Fang. Infuriated, the head witch shape-shifted into a giant wolf and attacks Fang, only for Lula to flow down from the perch in the form of a raven and distracted the leader long enough to allow Spear and Fang to escape deep into the jungle. Eventually, the head witch overpowered Lula and struck her down as punishment for her betrayal. ("Coven of the Damned")

## Trivia

* She is the first antagonist of the series to successfully accomplish her goals.
	+ She is also the second antagonist leader not to die, the first being the Mammoth Matriarch, but unlike the Matriarch, she remained an adversary. Interestingly, both were motivated to preserve the existence of their clans.
	+ However, she didn't get chance to sacrifice Spear for the baby since it was interrupted. Though given that she is an enemy beyond his understanding to defeat, she does to a degree still win as she will live to continue rituals for the sake of her coven.
* Her "default" form strongly resembles a grey alien, implying she might be extra-terrestrial. As *Primal* draws inspiration from Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian saga who is himself influenced by Lovecraft's myths, it could be that she is a Great Old One like Nyarlathotep, or it's possible she is a demon worshiped by her followers. It may even be possible she originally was human, but her magic has twisted and mutated her to the point where she isn't human anymore or only just.

## References

1. ↑ "Coven of the Damned Pitch Animatic". (Video) *Adult Swim*.