Kaftar, fully Kaftar-zhanavar ('Kaftar the beast'), is a graveyard demon best preserved among the Tabasarans of the upper Tabasaran highlands. She is imagined as a fearsome one-eyed old woman as large as a foal, so dreadful that a person who sees her dies of terror. Her principal office is the guarding of the cemetery: she assails only those who profane the graves, and she is believed to dig up and devour the corpses of children buried too shallowly. She belongs to the pan-Caucasian Kaftar hag-type, elsewhere identified with the hyena, and forms with Al and Iri bab the trio of hostile old-woman demons of Tabasaran lower mythology.