A molfar (Ukrainian: мольфа́р) is a person with purported magical abilities in Hutsul culture.
Their abilities focus around herbalism and other folk magic.
It may originate from Romance languages, e.g., Italian malfare 'to do evil'.
[1] Molfar culture was popularised by Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky's book Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, published in 1911, and a subsequent film made in 1964.
[citation needed] A prominent Carpathian molfar was Mykhailo Nechay, who lived in Verkhniy Yaseniv and was killed in 2011.