If you want to see what the other non civilized world gave us read Sir James Frasier’s THE GOLDEN BOUGH to see how taboos and superstitions ruled the non-civilized world in the not too distant past.
“To attribute such scruples to them is to commit the common, the perpetually repeated mistake of judging the savage by the standard
of European civilisation.
If any of my readers set out with the
notion that all races of men think and act much in the same way as
educated Englishmen, the evidence of superstitious belief and custom
collected in this work should suffice to disabuse him of so
erroneous a prepossession.”-Sir James Frasier
“taboos and superstitions ruled the non-civilized world in the not too distant past”
I’d say even today, in the mid-East, Africa, Caribbean, South America, any third world country.