Nea ɔwɔ aka no pɛn no suro sonsono.
“One who has been bitten by a snake fears even the earthworm.”
A painful past experience makes a person cautious even about harmless things afterward.
— Traditional Ghana Wisdom, Ghana
Source: Traditional Ghana proverb, public-domain oral tradition
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