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
Kishori	-	Indian, Marathi
Govinda	-	Hinduism, Indian, Marathi, Malayalam, Kannada
Ozias	-	Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek
Niels (1)	NILS	Danish
Antonijo	-	Croatian
Berrak	-	Turkish