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
Tahmasp	-	Ancient Persian
Chichi	-	Western African, Igbo
Tzivyah	-	Biblical Hebrew
MetodĚJ	-	Czech
Karim	-	Arabic
Edana	-	History