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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.
15 gru 2019 · The Devil’s Hour being 3 AM is considered significant as it’s the opposite hour to the death of Christ. The Bible reads that Jesus Christ was placed on the cross at 9 AM and darkness covered the land from noon until Jesus’ death at 3 PM when Matthew cried out: “It is finished.”
21 cze 2023 · In 1535, when a deep fear of witchcraft started becoming more common in Europe, the Catholic church forbid its followers to do any activities between 3 AM and 4 AM, believing it to be the devil’s hour.
3 mar 2019 · Others believe the witching hour to be the hour between 3 am and 4 am. So it’s a time when most people are safely tucked up in bed, fast asleep and ostensibly dead to the world. The trouble with this interpretation is that 3 am is sometimes known as the Devil’s hour.
20 paź 2017 · In modern calculation this would be 3 p.m. According to this idea, Satan then flips the symbolism on its head by taking for himself 3 a.m., in direct mockery of God.
26 paź 2023 · A sinister aura is often associated with the witching hour. Though not inherently supernatural, a particularly dark tale associated with the witching hour is the case of Ronald DeFeo Jr., who murdered his family — allegedly at 3:15 am. This story later inspired The Amityville Horror .
17 mar 2021 · Those who support the idea that the witching hour, or the devil’s hour, takes place at 3 am argue that, because it is the inverse of 3 pm, the hour that Jesus passed, it is the ideal time for the devil to undo the good that Jesus Christ sought to accomplish with his sacrifice.
