I am writing something and need to know what different times on a clock mean. For instance 12 is witching hour.. is there anything else and what does it mean? Reliable sources would be helpful!
2007-10-02 05:32:02 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
Ok, I know that 4 am means morning and so on, what I am trying to find out is information such as: what time is it best to see ghosts, at what time are our brains most active etc etc etc does kind of details
2007-10-02 05:47:55 · update #1
In the days before watches or even town clocks, there were the church bells that would toll the different masses throughout the day.
Matins (during the night), sometimes referred to as Vigils or Nocturns; it is now called the Office of Readings.
Lauds or Dawn Prayer (at Dawn)
Prime or Early Morning Prayer (First Hour = 6 a.m.)
Terce or Mid-Morning Prayer (Third Hour = 9 a.m.)
Sext or Midday Prayer (Sixth Hour = 12 noon)
None or Mid-Afternoon Prayer (Ninth Hour = 3 p.m.)
Vespers or Evening Prayer ("at the lighting of the lamps")
Compline or Night Prayer (before retiring)
(from answers.com/ liturgy of the hours)
2007-10-02 05:43:28 · answer #1 · answered by philos34002 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Historically, the "Witching hour" is quite modern and more attuned to Movies and scary fiction books. Midnight was taken as halfway through the night, and time to change the guards, all the way back to the beginnings of scribing.
Even the Supper hour and the Dinner hour are rather silly as they are different in different cultures. Lunch hour, though, is at Mid-day or noon, which is halfway through daylight. Tea time is a clock time that I do enjoy when I'm anyplace that is or was an affiliate of the British empire.
The hour of the "Cocks Crow" is about the silliest because those damn roosters crow anytime they feel like it, including midnight.
2007-10-02 13:11:50 · answer #2 · answered by Terry 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
They do not mean anything, just BS people think up. 2 o'clock, 4 o'clock, 6 o'clock rock. Rock, rock, rock, around de clock.
2007-10-02 12:38:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Its mostly myth. we(americans) are one of two countries that do not use standard military time.
2007-10-02 12:42:34 · answer #4 · answered by Veteranschoice 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
7ajm is wakeup time for alot of us...
noon is lunchtime...
6pm dinnertime
8 am start work time..
2007-10-02 12:39:44 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋