Byline: Christi Parsons Chicago Tribune
James Hall is just your average, everyday African witch doctor.
Except, of course, for the fact that he is from a white, wealthy, conservative Catholic family in suburban Winnetka, Ill. And he used to be a television writer in Los Angeles.
And he has an agent.
Hall bristles at the notion that he's a kind of unlikely candidate for ancestral spirits to have summoned from the L.A. circuit to a small African tribe eight years ago for the purpose of healing bad luck and other ailments.
``Some people might say I'm an African wannabe,'' said blue-eyed, fair-skinned Hall, draped with beaded necklaces, while on a recent trip back to his childhood home. ``That's just not the case.''
You can't really blame the skeptics. After all, Hall, 40, did have his first spiritual experience while shopping in Marshall Field's on Chicago's State Street.
He says the spirits made their plans for him clear by causing street lamps to flicker and go out each time he passed underneath. Later, his head caught on fire during meditation.
He also contends that he is possessed by the spirits of eight dead people, including a chain-smoking adman named Harry.
It all seems, well, a little too weird to believe.
But Hall is here to say …
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