There were three brother knights, Osso, Mastrosso and Carcagnosso, who had a younger sister. A rich man raped her one evening and they were furious. They decide they had to avenge her honor and that the rich man must pay for his offense with his life. They brutally tortured and killed the rich man for his offense. It turned out the rich man was a very good friend of the king and the king was very upset. He had the three knights arrested, condemning them to twenty-nine years, eleven months and twenty-nine days imprisonment inside the fortress of Santa Caterina on the island of Favignana in Sicily. They spend those prison years consumed by thoughts of revenge. They used that time to write codes of honor, rules, rites of affiliation, symbols and inviolable commandments with the intent of reconstituting a society that would have the task of not allowing injustices by the powerful anymore. When the three knights of the legend got out of prison after thirty years they made a new order that had at its core an emphasis on honor and a code of silence. Osso stayed in Sicily and founded Cosa Nostra. Mastrosso went to Calabria and founded ' Ndrangheta. Carcagnosso went to Campania and founded Camorra. It is the myth of the birth of the Mafia.
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