Jorge Elías Adoum

Jorge Elías Francisco Adoum a.k.a. Mago Jefa (March 10, 1897 – May 4, 1958) was Lebanese and migrated to Ecuador where he made Arabic-to-Spanish translations, painted, sculpted, composed music, practiced natural medicine, and wrote more than 40 volumes on occult sciences and masonry which he signed with the pseudonym "Mago Jefa". He also had a private practice for hypnotism, magnetism and suggestion, and made numerous healings considered miraculous in his time. Since 1945 he traveled to Chile, Argentina, and Brazil. He died in Rio de Janeiro in 1958 at 61 years old. He was the father of the Ecuadorian novelist Jorge Enrique Adoum.