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
JÓZsef	YO-zhef	Hungarian
Lennox	LEN-əks	Scottish, English (Rare)
Tiffiny	TIF-ə-nee	English (Rare)
PŘEmysl	-	Czech
NaİLe	-	Turkish
Samuel	['sæmjuəl]