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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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Come witching hour, only truly zealous or pitifully desperate students remain.
Slumped in a Sydney taxi one morning, well after the witching hour, I listened to a grave sermon on time travel.
A spell was cast over Croydon as hundreds of Harry Potter fans waited for the witching hour to get their hands on the latest instalment of the child wizard's adventures.
Maybe it was just because it was Halloween night, midnight, the witching hour upon us, and I was just projecting.
As the clock-hands sweep into the witching hour, on October 30, a new season of gab and glitter will open at the Varscona Theatre.
I will not light the lamp yet, for there is splendid moonlight, and it is such a witching hour.

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