AFAIK it is unclear whether the Turin horse scene actually happened. The description is actually suspiciously similar to a scene in Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Crime

AFAIK it is unclear whether the Turin horse scene actually happened. The description is actually suspiciously similar to a scene in Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment, which Nietzsche had read. The Turin horse episode, on the other hand, apparently (and I don’t remember where I read this) goes back to an account first published by the contemporary writer Alain de Botton. And all there seems to be in terms of evidence is a story written by an unnamed journalist in 1901, almost a decade after the event supposedly had taken place.