Originally Posted by DillyDolly
With Camorra clans, are members sworn in with a ceremony, or is it just understood that they're members? How exactly does it work? Does anyone know?


Not on the scale of Cutolo's NCO. Cutolo spent a great amount of time researching the 19th century Camorra and reconstructed the old Camorristic ritual of initiation. He took great care in making the ritual a binding social practise. In his cell, he created a ceremony in which the initiate received the award of the primo regalo (first gift) also called abbraccio (embrace) or fiore (flower). He infused the old Camorristic traditions with Catholicism and reconstituted the ritual of initiation of the traditional Camorra.


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