Bengali

Bengali proverbs, at a glance

• Fear sees ghosts in the tamarind tree

  ভয় পেলে ভূত দেখে

  Bhoy pele bhoot dekhe

  Literally: When frightened, one sees a ghost

  Bengali · Bengal (Bangladesh / West Bengal)

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  • Japanese — the ghost's true form is withered pampas grass; looking dissolves the thing fear made
  • Russian — у страха глаза велики; fear is itself an organ of enlarged perception
  • Mandarin — 草木皆兵; at the Battle of Fei River, Fu Jian's army saw enemy soldiers in every tree and blade of grass