Yes! A lot of taboos surrounding fire spirits are just to prevent fires on the steppes, and sole fishing taboos are to help maintain healthy populations. But a lot of things I looked at were seemingly random, such as a hill where fertile women weren’t supposed to go. The local
Shamans went there to ask the hill protector spirits to warn such individuals, and I was never able to walk up

That hill. First time I was on horseback and the moment I reached the foot of the hill there was a violent thunderstorm, second time on foot I had a horrible stomach ache, felt like I had the worst food poisoning. Ran back to camp, expecting the worst, and nothing happened. I didn’t know about the taboo at the time. Also a lot of the places that are called “khairkhan” (beloved) are so taboo I think people forgot their real names and why they became taboos in the first place 😅 there were some regions where I couldn’t get any information out of the locals, they immediately shit down any convo regarding these “angry places” .
As for the Thailand & Cambodia spirits apparently the monks at this intense and frankly, quite unconventional vipassana meditation camp told my sis that it was perfectly normal to see “ghosts” . Your story spent chills down my spine 😅
I was several times at silent vipassana camps, some
In Thailand, but none was like the borderline black magic infused place my sis went to. Thai occultism seems to be very diverse, and obscure.