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- Black Hand (extortion), extortion practised by gangsters of Camorra and Mafia.
- Black Hand of Serbia, secret society devoted to Serbian unification in 1910s.
- Black Hand Society, Spanish charitable organization in 19th century[citation needed].
- Black Hand (Palestine), a militant group created by Syrian-born Sheikh Izz ad-Din al-Qassam (after whom the "military wing" of Hamas is named) in the British Mandate of Palestine.
- Black Hand (Lebanon), a militant group that attacked a number of foreign interests in Beirut in 1983 in the course of Lebanese Civil War [1]
- Black Hands, a pseudonym of Scottish band, Franz Ferdinand.
- La Mano Negra ("The Black Hand"), an alleged terrorist Spanish anarchist group, that was used to justify the repression of Spanish anarchism.
- Mano Negra, a French pop-fusion band.
[edit] Popular culture
- The Black Hand Gang, a secret society featured in Eve Garnett's The Family from One End Street. Henry Oates, a twelve-year-old foreman's son, leads this group; its members include the Ruggles twins, Jim and John.
- The Adventures of the Black Hand Gang is a short illustrated novel, now out-of-print, by Hans Jurgen Press. Offered in the U.S. via the Scholastic Book Service, the short collection of illustrated mysteries involved a small group of kids solving crimes or mysteries, using their keen senses of observation. The unique thing about the book was the innovative use of hidden clues in the illustrations that allowed the reader to participate in the mystery solving.
- Black Hand (comics), a fictional DC Comics supervillain.
- Black Hand (Inheritance Trilogy), a fictional network of assassins loyal to King Galbatorix based in Surda who are responsible for many deaths in Surda and the Varden.
- In Command & Conquer video games, the Black Hand is an elite group of covert-ops troops belonging to the Brotherhood of Nod.
- The Black Hands Gaming Society, a group of roleplaying game players that have recurring roles in the long-running gaming comic strip Knights of the Dinner Table.
- The Black Hand is a militant faction of elitist 'sect police' within the vampiric faction of the Sabbat in the roleplaying game Vampire the Masquerade.
- In the popular The Elder Scrolls computer based role-playing game there is a group known as the Black Hand in the Dark Brotherhood cult and assassin's guild.
