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Motifs
- Girl avoids eating her mother's flesh by spilling the meat and the soup in the pen. G61.1.1
- Difficulty of thinking of God when occupied with worldly affairs. Shown by test: holy man made to carry milk without spilling. So occupied he forgets to think of God. J94
- The wine-spilling host rebuked. A host spills his customer's wine so that he must buy more. He consoles the guest with "It is a sign of the great abundance you shall have this year." With the same remark the guest draws the spigot from the host's wine cask. J1511.5
- Oil is cheap (or spilling oil is good luck). Man hearing this breaks oil vessels. J2214.7
- Spilling salt brings bad luck. N131.3