Stuppagghiari

Stuppagghiari

Stuppagghiari

Historical criminal group

The Stuppagghiari was an early predecessor of the Sicilian Mafia. A 19th-century organized-crime group based in Monreale, near Palermo in Sicily, its initiation rite was one of the first such rites described to an outside audience.[1]

References

  1. [1]
    Gambetta, Diego. The Sicilian Mafia: The Business of Private Protection p. 262.
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