It can further be speculated that the Mafia was simply emulating, to a certain degree, a more medieval order in which a noble family would more or less serve as the power in a local village, in a sort of inverted hacienda culture. Films like The Godfather and a spate of late-1980s "Mafia princess" television movies underscore this confusion. In Sicily and America, most Mafia bosses are not related to their predecessors. The term can be a point of confusion, especially in popular culture and Hollywood, because in the truest sense, crime families are not necessarily blood families who happen to be involved in criminal activity, and they are not necessarily based on blood relationships.
In the early days of the Mafia, loose groups of bandits organized themselves into associations that over time became more organized, and they adopted the term based on both of its meanings.Īs the Mafia was imported into the United States in the late 19th century, the English translation of the word cosca was more at clan or family. In the Sicilian language, the word cosca, which is the crown of spiny, closely folded leaves on plants such as the artichoke or the thistle, symbolizes the tightness of relationships between members. The origins of the term come from the Sicilian Mafia.
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