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In folklore, the witching hour or devil's hour is a time of night that is associated with supernatural events, whereby witches, demons and ghosts are thought to appear and be at their most powerful. Definitions vary, and include the hour immediately after midnight and the time between 3:00 am and 4:00 am.
In earlier times, the term simply referred to worshiping at the shrine during the hours of the ox, and the curse connotation developed later. At the Kifune Shrine in Kyoto, there was a tradition that if one prayed here on the "ox hour of the ox day of the ox month of the ox year" the wish was likely to be granted, because it was during this alignment of the hour, day, month, and year that the ...
The Witching Hour is the first novel in Rice's Lives of the Mayfair Witches trilogy. It was published by Knopf in 1990. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] The Mayfairs' First Street house is based on Rice's own antebellum mansion in New Orleans, with fictional events written as if taking place in specific locations in the real-world house.
NFL RedZone host Scott Hanson has helped popularize the "witching hour," which fans know is the window for mass chaos throughout the league.
Triple witching hour is the last hour of the stock market trading session (3:00-4:00 P.M., New York City local Time ) on the third Friday of every March, June, September, and December. Those days are the expiration of three kinds of securities:
Witching hour: the last hour of stock trading between 3 pm (when the bond market closes) and 4 pm EST (when the stock market closes), which can be characterized by higher-than-average volatility. [14] Triple witching hour: the last hour of the stock market trading session (3:00-4:00 P.M.,
Witching Hour was re-released on 5 April 2007 on Major (Germany), on 5 November 2007 on So Sweet (UK), and on 18 January 2011 (US)/24 January 2011 (UK) on Nettwerk. The album was recorded in 2004 at Elevator Studios in Liverpool and it was produced by Ladytron and Jim Abbiss.
Halloween Dad Jokes. 67. Why do ghosts like to hang out at bars? Because all of the Boos. 68. What do you call a dancing ghost? Polka-haunt-us. 69.