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Hunting a Witch:
Geralt can either learn the location of the witch by listening to the villagers of Midcopse or going directly to the witch's home. There are a few specific villagers that Geralt can speak to, and this is best accomplished during the day as most people are asleep and unresponsive to questioning at night. There are 3 ways to find the witch's location:

Two peasant women near the village well are gossiping outside a house in front of a small fire. Geralt can eavesdrop on their conversation, but if he gets too close they will quiet each other until he walks further away.
An old man smoking a pipe near the western entrance of the village will quickly offer up the witch's location.
One peasant woman who can usually be found outside her home sweeping near the village well mentions a witch. If asked, she will direct Geralt to speak with her husband who recently went to visit the witch to cure a bad back injury. Approach the husband near the rear of the house. He won't give up the information easily, so either pay 50 Oren3, use Axii (requires Delusion level 1, 25XP earned based on the Story and Swords! difficulty level) to loosen his tongue and he will describe the trail to follow. If you do neither and exit the conversation, he'll eventually leave the village and you can follow, then rescue him when he is attacked by a pack of 5 nekkers and he will offer directions to the witch out of gratitude. It can be hard to trigger him leaving the village though.
You can even do all 3 if you wish, being successful in one method doesn't prevent the others from triggering.

Search just north of the village for the pond and the road that runs along it lengthwise. After reaching the northwestern tip of the pond, a large rock should be visible, standing tall just a bit further to the northwest. This boulder marks the start of a path off the main road to the right which Geralt should follow to an abandoned cart that's usually guarded over by a pack of 5 nekkers. The witch's hut is straight on down the path.

Talk to the witch in her hut
As Geralt approaches the witch's hut, he sees a large group of villagers asking for her help. After giving them instructions, she then tells them all to leave as she is done helping people for the day. Obviously the rules don't apply to Geralt so go ahead and barge right into her home. Inside, the witch appears to be missing. Search about the place to figure out where she's disappeared to.

Reaching for the skull, it will glow with power and open up a portal to an unknown location. So that's where she disappeared to. Walk into the portal and Geralt will be transported to an underground cavern complete with grass, shrubs, trees, and a large rabbit population. Approach the building in the center of the cavern and Keira Metz, the witch, will call out to Geralt to ascend the stairs to come see her. Hurry up the steps to be greeted by a "pleasant view."

Speak with Keira to learn about her dealings in Velen and other sorceresses of the lodge. Keira will tell the witcher that a masked, elven mage had been asking about Ciri and that if Keira met her, to lead her to him. Keira offers to bring you to meet this mage, who is hiding in some elven ruins in the southwestern wilderness just northwest of Byways. You can choose to go straight away with her or agree to meet her there. Note that the meeting place is quite far away, with no safe fast travel points nearby, and possibly nasty enemies on the way, but you also shouldn't go unprepared. Regardless of choice, the quest will then end.

Walkthrough Source: https://witcher.fandom.com/wiki/Hunting_a_Witch

Defender of the Faith:
To start the quest you'll need to find the old woman who can be encountered at 2 of the 3 shrine locations:
-between Blackbough and Crow's Perch
-at Duén Hen

However, two more shrines need to be fixed in Velen and while the level for this quest is 10, there are high leveled enemies between the two shrines in lower Velen, particularly a griffin if you stick to the main roads, so be mindful of this.

Note that while it doesn't matter what order you fix them, as you'll earn 25 XP earned based on the Story and Swords! difficulty level at the second, if you do the one at Duén Hen second, you'll encounter an endrega warrior, while if you do the unmarked location between Byways and Frischlow there will be wolves, so if you're looking to avoid as many fights as possible, it's best to find the woman at Duén Hen then do the one near Crow's Perch second (as it doesn't spawn anything).

The last location is where you'll run into the vandals destroying the shrines. Letting them do as they please fails the quest, but beating them up (or killing them) completes it, earning 50 XP earned based on the Story and Swords! difficulty level.

Walkthrough Source: https://witcher.fandom.com/wiki/Defender_of_the_Faith

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