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:
“Thou turn’st my eyes into my very soul,
And there I see such black and grained spots
As will not leave their tinct.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.”
—Miguel De Cervantes (1547–1616)