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
Rafa	RAH-fah	Spanish
Reilly	['raili]
Hans	[hænz]
LorÁNd	-	Hungarian
Krzysiek	-	Polish
Gerardo	je-RAHR-do (Italian), he-RAHR-do (Spanish)	Italian, Spanish