Re: Taweez culture
oh i see. wow! she knows quite a few languages. good for her! 
vaise, i have seen, with my own eyes, that women used to line up with their ailing babies in their arms after maGhrib prayers [sunset prayer] outside my village mosque and asking the Muslims coming out of the Masjid after the prayer to blow [dam] on their babies … they believe that the words of God helps to cure the diseases.
i would call it a ‘blind faith’.