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What is a witching hour?

What is a witching hour? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The hour after midnight, when witches and other supernatural beings were thought to be active, and to which bad luck was ascribed.
  2. (less common) The hour after 3.00 AM, associated with demons. [from late 20th c.]
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Maybe it was just because it was Halloween night, midnight, the witching hour upon us, and I was just projecting.
Come witching hour, only truly zealous or pitifully desperate students remain.
Despite their moniker, all Midnight Madness films screen twice, once at the witching hour and once during the day or early evening.
I will not light the lamp yet, for there is splendid moonlight, and it is such a witching hour.
We have just passed through the witching hour that is Hallowe'en, relic of a medieval past when ghosts and spirits were thought to stalk the land on All Hallow's Eve.
Slumped in a Sydney taxi one morning, well after the witching hour, I listened to a grave sermon on time travel.

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