[1] Bizango groups are widespread throughout Haiti,[2] and play an important role as arbiters in peasant social life.
[1] The anthropologist Wade Davis reported that the Bizango were involved in poisoning individuals and then providing them with an antidote to leave them in a pliant state, which he associated with zombification.
In Davis' view, this was how the Bizango enforced their social codes against those who transgressed them.
[2] The Bizango's practice of capturing zombis is often taken as evidence of these societies' malevolent nature.
[3] In Haitian folklore, a recurring fear is that the Bizango can transform themselves into dogs or other animals, in which form they walk the streets at night.