Question
A priest founded a group called Libera to help female members of these organizations. Three Spanish knights supposedly founded three of these organizations after being shipwrecked near Favignana. One of these organizations initiates members by dropping blood onto a prayer card which is then burnt. Pentiti who betrayed these organizations were key to a 1980s (*) "maxi trial" focusing on them. One of these organizations gets its name from a dialect term likely deriving from the Greek for manly virtue and is called the 'Ndrangheta (in-DRAHN-gay-tah). These organizations often enforce a code of silence called omertà that discourages squealing. For 10 points, the Cosa Nostra is an example of what type of criminal enterprise active in Sicily? ■END■
ANSWER: Italian mafia [or Sicilian mafia; or the mob; prompt on organized crime or gangs or organized crime families; accept 'Ndrangheta until read]
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