witching

the witching hour

twelve o'clock at night It's time I was in bed - it's already past the witching hour.

witching hour

Midnight, as in They arrived just at the witching hour. This term alludes to older superstitions concerning a time appropriate to witchcraft and other supernatural occurrences. Shakespeare and others wrote of "the witching time of night." The precise phrase was first recorded in 1835.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Meinwen	-	Welsh
Perez	-	Biblical
Lynch	[lintʃ]
Diodotos	-	Ancient Greek
SİMge	-	Turkish
Mukhamed	-	Chechen