The goddesses Parvati and Kali of Hinduism is said to be different aspects of the same deity. It was something about connecting Parvati to Marizhavashti Kali, the Black Mother. I was more a couple of straying ideas then a theory really, and I didn't necessarily believe it myself. The Black Hand practice in the United States disappeared in the mid 1920s after a wave of negative public opinion led organized crime figures to seek more subtle methods of extortion.I couldn't find my old post, and since I wrote it a couple of years ago, I can't really recall it in whole. On occasion, Black Handers threatened other gangsters and usually faced retaliation.
Although more successful immigrants were usually targeted, possibly as many as 90% of Italian immigrants and workmen in New York and other communities were threatened with extortion. Don Fanucci was a practicer of Black Hand techniques, which were improved upon by the men who later ran the Five Families in New York City, such as Vito Corleone.īy 1900, Black Hand operations were firmly established in the Italian-American communities of major cities including New York, Philadelphia, New Orleans, Chicago, Scranton, San Francisco, and Detroit.
Originating in Southern Italy, the term gained prominence when referring to Italian or Sicilian immigrant criminals who moved to the United States from the 1880s onwards. It was a method of extortion, not a criminal organization as such, though gangsters of the Camorra and the Mafia practiced it. The Black Hand, or La Mano Nera in Italian, was a type of extortion racket. " The Black Hand, an offshoot of the Mafia which extorted money from families and storekeepers by threat of physical violence." ―The Godfather
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