What is "molfar"

A molfar is a person with purported magical abilities in Hutsul culture. Their abilities focus around herbalism and other folk magic.

Molfar culture was popularised by Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky's book “ Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors”, published in 1911, and a subsequent film made in 1964.

A prominent Carpathian molfar was Mykhailo Nechay, who lived in Verkhniy Yesen.