“Borrow trouble”in other languages

Same idea, different pictures

English takes trouble out early, like a loan. Afrikaans fears a baboon behind the hill, bobbejaan agter die bult, an animal nobody has actually seen.

Japanese 杞憂, “the worry of Qi”, comes from an old Chinese book, the Liezi. It tells of a man from the state of Qi who couldn't eat or sleep for fear that the sky would fall.