Witching-hour
noun
1.
midnight:
a rendezvous at the witching hour.
witching hour
noun
1.
the witching hour, the hour at which witches are supposed to appear, usually midnight
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.
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