Tumble up stairs and you’ll not get married within the year. (Hence old maids were formerly said to be careful how they went up stairs.)
New England.

Tumble up stairs and you’ll not get married within the year. (Hence old maids were formerly said to be careful how they went up stairs.)
Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 377.
Fanny D. Bergen, editor.
Modern normalized navigation; the historical attribution above remains unchanged.