In American Horror Story Coven, Spalding's tongue is cursed by Myrtle Snow to tell only the truth, and he says multiple times that he is one of a long line of butlers who has worked for the Coven. He says that his family has served the Coven for 300 years.
That is not how to properly set a table.
The glaring mistakes in positioning and choice of cutlery could be put down as Van Wirt's eccentricity, except that the doll who fails says that she wasn't taught how to do it, implying that his way was the proper way of doing things.