Black Hand

Black Hand may refer to:

In underground groups:

  • Black Hand (extortion), an extortion racket practised by the Camorra and Mafia members in Italy and the United States
  • Black Hand (Serbia) (Crna Ruka), a secret society devoted to Serbian unification in 1910s
  • Black Hand (Palestine) (al-Kaff al-Aswad), an Islamist militant group in the British Mandate of Palestine in the 1930s
  • La Mano Negra ("The Black Hand"), a supposed secret and violent anarchist organization in Spain at the end of the 19th century

In modern culture

  • Mano Negra, a French pop-fusion band
  • Black Hand Gang, a series by Hans Jürgen Press
  • Black Hand (comics) a DC Comics supervillain
  • Black Hand (World of Darkness), fictional sect of vampires
  • Black Hand (VTES), the sixth expansion of White Wolf's collectible trading card game Vampire: The Eternal Struggle
  • Black Hand, a faction of the Brotherhood of Nod in the Command & Conquer series of games
  • Black Hand, a subversive group in the novel Eldest by Christopher Paolini
  • The Black Hand, 1906 movie; the earliest surviving gangster film (11 min.)
  • Black Hand (1950 film), 1950 film starring Gene Kelly

Famous quotes containing the words black and/or hand:

    “It’s perversion. Don’t you see what it is? It’s not natural. To go to great expense for something you want, that’s natural. To reach out to take it, that’s human, that’s natural. But to get your pleasure from not taking, from cheating yourself deliberately like my brother did today, from not getting, from not taking. Don’t you see what a black thing that is for a man to do? How it is to hate yourself?”
    —Abraham Polonsky (b. 1910)

    “The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man’s hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report what my dream was!”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)