The Gift of Doom
Description
A gold miner gets trapped in the snow and an Eskimo woman with magical powers saves his life. He discovers she can heal people with her magic and decides to marry her. Her special abilities help him become more powerful in politics. But success goes to his head and he thinks he's too good for his wife, so he starts planning to get rid of her.
A snowbound prospector is saved by an Eskimo witch from a fatal accident. He soon learns of her powerful skill with healing magic and decides to marry her. Her talents soon help further his political ambitions. However, bloated with his own self-importance he decides that he no longer needs the savage that is his wife and schemes to get rid of her.
CBS Radio Mystery Theater is a radio drama series created by Himan Brown that was broadcast on CBS Radio Network affiliates from 1974 to 1982, and later in the early 2000s was repeated by the NPR satellite feed. In New York City it was not aired by the then all-news WCBS but by its originating station, WOR, which produced and announced it as simply Radio Mystery Theater.
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