A Small Collection of Words Descriptive of Night Walkers and Night walking

Originally shared: Saturday 10 December 2016

 "Blessed are the owls, for they shall inherit the mystery and magic of the night."

Hilary Rubinstein "The Complete Insomniac",1974 p. 19

Night Owl (i), Night Hawk (i, ii, iii, iv), Night Walker (i), 
Nocturnal Traveller (i, ii, iii),  Noctivagator (i, ii),
Noctivagant (i, ii), Night Wanderer (i, ii)  Night Stroller, Night Reveller (i), Night Dweller,
Shadow of the Night, Noctambule (i), Noctambulate (i),
Noctambulator (i),
Nyctophilist (i)

" . . .  [Matthew Beamont] claims to link the indigent or vagabond ‘noctivagator’ (the ‘common nightwalker’) with the leisurely yet purposeful ‘noctambulator’ (the ‘uncommon nightwalker’) . . . "

From James McConnachie's review of Matthew Beaumont's "Night Walking", 2015. The Spectator magazine: "Dickens’s dark side: walking at night helped ease his conscience at killing off characters"

A list of night deities - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_night_deities
List of nocturnal birds - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nocturnal_birds
List of nocturnal animals - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nocturnal_animals