“Be afraid of one's own shadow”in other languages

Same idea, different pictures

English jumps at its own shadow. Chinese 杯弓蛇影, a bow in the cup, a snake in the shadow, comes from an old story of a man who saw a snake in his wine, drank it anyway, and fell ill. It was only the reflection of a bow hanging on the wall.

Hebrew eats films, לאכול סרטים, the anxious mind screening one disaster movie after another.