The Wither has a story attached to it befitting such a terrifying creature. Made up of Soul Sand and three Wither Skeleton skulls, before the beast springs to life, it has a very similar construction to a Golem.

There is a prevailing theory on the Wither that has to do with Golems. After the technology of creating Iron and Snow Golems was perfected, those who traveled into the Nether had a new idea. They saw the Soul Sand absorbing the souls of the fallen, and imagined that if a Golem could be created from a Souls Sand base, then their friends could be resurrected. The result of their experimentation was the Wither.