Read up...fascinating account of the Hildabeast...
...and consulted the dead, Eleanor Roosevelt, for example. Elie probably didn't ask for a consulting fee, but the Bible suggests that consulting the dead will be driven out before the LORD.
Deuteronomy 18:10-12 "There shall not be found among you anyone who [SNIP] calls up the dead.
"For whoever does these things is detestable to the LORD; and because of these detestable things the LORD your God will drive them out before you."
HF