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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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Slumped in a Sydney taxi one morning, well after the witching hour, I listened to a grave sermon on time travel.
Come witching hour, only truly zealous or pitifully desperate students remain.
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.
He could not stay any longer, because the witching hour of flute-playing was drawing near.
In the baronial study, the girl, her lover, the cop and a few businessmen all wait for the 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.

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