Initiation rituals explicitly instruct novices that the group’s true name is not mafia

Evidence

Before his initiation Melchiorre Allegra, an army medical doctor who became a mafioso in 1916, was informed that he was about to become part of what “only outsiders” call the mafia. In 1987 Calderone testified that novices are informed at the ritual, first of all, that “what is called mafia is, in reality, Cosa Nostra” (see Appendix B). — Diego Gambetta, The Sicilian Mafia The Business of…, 359