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
Arianrhod	-	Welsh, Welsh Mythology
Deb	DEB	English
Vivianne	-	French
Deniece	də-NEES	English (Rare)
Karna	-	Hinduism
Crescentius	-	Late Roman