The White Cat
7HERE Hani Gretler came from, the werewolves roamed abroad upon Walpurgis Night. And, at any time of the year, the spirits of the dead were wont to appear in the bodies of cats. Hani’s own great-grandmother did so. She’d been drowned as a witch by the people of her little Austrian village, and, at the instant she died, a white cat appeared from nowhere on the bank of the river. This, Hani believed. But in the gleaming London surgery of Dr, Halliday, it all sounded somehow improbable. The slinky, ash-blonde Hani had confided in Halliday because, she said, it had been revealed to her in a dream that a car would knock her down outside his surgery two days hence. She wanted the doctor on hand to save her life. Halliday half-believed, and disbetieved, but his scepticism. was finally shaken. An old death certificate, and a pretty white cat, saw to that. Listeners who like the spinal chill of occult events will be able to hear the full story of Hani Gretler from 1YA at 7.30 pm..on Tuesday, July 20. The broadcast is an NZBS production of Barbara Harper’s play Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 782, 16 July 1954, Page 21
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197The White Cat New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 782, 16 July 1954, Page 21
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