| 单词 | witches' night |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswitches' night witches' night n. a night during which witches are supposed to be especially active, spec. (the night of) Midsummer Eve, 23 June, or Halloween, 31 October. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > year > season > [noun] > summer > midsummer > midsummer day or eve Midsummer DaylOE midsummer1530 witches' nighta1697 a1697 J. Aubrey Remaines Gentilisme & Judaisme (1881) 133 'Tis Midsommer-night or Midsommer-eve (St. Jo. Baptist) is counted or called the Witches night. 1876 H. W. Dulcken tr. B. Auerbach Good Hour 22 In the village they marvelled at first to find the two witches gone; but soon it was settled that the devil had carried them off in the ‘witches' night’. 1911 Bright Ideas for Money-making 186 The custom of playing tricks on this night [sc. Hallowe'en] came from the old superstition that this is ‘witches' night’ and that all the strange and wild powers of the air are abroad to do mischief. 2015 Western Morning News (Nexis) 30 May 14 The 23rd [of June] is Midsummer or Johnmas Eve, the Witches Night and 24th is Midsummer Day, Feast of the Nativity of St John the Baptist. < as lemmas |
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