speak of the devil and he appears

English

expression used when a person mentioned in the current conversation happens to arrive

Bulgarian: говорим за вълка, а той в кошарата (govorim za vălka, a toj v košarata)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 說曹操，曹操到 (zh), 说曹操，曹操到 (zh) (shuō Cáo Cāo, Cáo Cāo dào)
Finnish: siinä paha missä mainitaan
French: quand on parle du loup on en voit la queue (fr)
Friulian: tu fevelis dal diàul e vegnin fûr i cuars!
German: wenn man vom Teufel spricht, kommt er gerannt
Italian: parli del diavolo e spuntano le corna
Japanese: 噂をすれば影がさす (ja) (うわさをすればかげがさす, uwasa-o sureba kage-ga sasu)
Korean: 호랑이도 제 말 하면 온다 (ko) (horangido je mal hamyeon onda)

Norwegian: når man snakker om sola, så skinner den
Polish: o wilku mowa, a wilk tu (pl)
Portuguese: falando do diabo, aparece o rabo
Russian: о во́лке помо́лвка, а волк и тут (o vólke pomólvka, a volk i tut), лёгок на поми́не (ru) (ljógok na pomíne), про се́рого речь, а се́рый навстре́чь (pro sérovo rečʹ, a séryj navstréčʹ)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ми о вуку а вук на врата

Roman: mi o vuku a vuk na vrata
Spanish: hablando del rey de Roma, por la puerta asoma
Swedish: när man talar om trollen så står de i farstun (sv)
Turkish: iti an, çomağı hazırla

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