witching hours
Spooky late night
The witching hours are the late-night period when supernatural forces supposedly hold sway—traditionally midnight or the hours surrounding it.
The phrase evokes a time when witches, ghosts, and demons are most active.
More loosely, it describes any late hour when strange things seem possible: I was still awake during the witching hours, unable to sleep.
- stroke of midnightExact moment of twelve
- cursesSworn oaths or hexes
- dark magicMalevolent supernatural practice
- hexesMalevolent magical spells
- midnightTwelve o'clock at night
witchcraft · Samhain · supernatural · sleep paralysis · mystical · old wives' tales · ghost stories · bump in the night · haunting · night terrors · insomnia · enchantment · sorcery · dead of night · twilight · liminal · cauldron · evenings
witching hoursbroad daylight
Fully visible daytime conditions
high noon · midday · daylight hours · sunrise · dawn
witching hoursholy hour
Catholic devotional practice
vespers · matins · sacred time
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