Ascitans

The Ascitans (or Ascitae, from the Greek ἀσκός, askos, wineskin) were a peculiar Montanist sect of 2nd century Christians, who produced the practice of dancing around burst wine-skins at their assemblies, saying that they were those new bottles filled with new wine, whereof Jesus makes mention, according to the New American Standard Bible translation, Matthew 9:17:

"Nor do people put new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the wineskins burst, and the wine pours out and the wineskins are ruined; but they put new wine into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved."

Philastrius thought the sect of the Ascodrugites was the same as the Ascitae, but his etymology of the former is false.[1]

References

Joshua T. Katz (2002), "How the Mole and Mongoose Got Their Names: Sanskrit ākhú- and nakulá", Journal of the American Oriental Society, 122 (2): 296–310, JSTOR 3087624CS1 maint: ref=harv (link).

Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Ascitans" . Encyclopædia Britannica. 2 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 722.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chambers, Ephraim, ed. (1728). "^{article name needed}". Cyclopædia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences (first ed.). James and John Knapton, et al.

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[1] Joshua T. Katz (2002), "How the Mole and Mongoose Got Their Names: Sanskrit ākhú- and nakulá", Journal of the American Oriental Society, 122 (2): 296–310, JSTOR 3087624CS1 maint: ref=harv (link).