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Howdy folks! Hope everyone has sufficiently recovered from their Halloween revelry. Last week I began a series of posts on Halloween. It was kind of a Gripevine Bumper Issue on all things associated with this "Dark Festival". For those of you who didn't manage to catch my postings as they appeared, here are the links to it  - all in one post for your belated reading pleasure :) Halloween Fashion!! http://jothijeyasingam.blogspot.com/2011/10/halloween-cover-looks.html Claws or Nails? http://jothijeyasingam.blogspot.com/2011/10/get-evil-with-those-nails.html Halloween Recipes http://jothijeyasingam.blogspot.com/2011/10/yummy-halloween-food.html When it gets spooky.............. http://jothijeyasingam.blogspot.com/2011/10/witching-hour.html The Origins of Halloween http://jothijeyasingam.blogspot.com/2011/10/halloween-post.html

When I was a kid, I assumed witching hour means the time when witches left their homes and zoomed about on their broomsticks. The other day I decided to do a little Googling to find out what the term really meant, and it appears I was about half right. Coz witches are not the only ones who come out during that potent time of the night. Popular belief has it that ghosts, demons, and other strange otherworldly creatures also make their appearance after the clock strikes 12 midnight, which officially signifies the start of witching hour. Many people believe that black magic is at its' most powerful during this time. If you have watched many spooky movies like me, I'm sure you'll remember that the demons, zombies, and other creatures of the dark usually make their appearance around this hour to plague their victims. So it is kinda generally accepted that bad things usually happen during this time. In The Exorcism of Emily Rose however, the term witching hou...