witching hour


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
witching hour
noun midnight, regarded as the time when witches are supposedly active.
– origin with allusion to the witching time of night from Shakespeare's Hamlet (iii. ii. 377).
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