Aelian, Varia Historia III 42:

Elege and Celaene [Ἐλέγη καὶ Κελαίνη] were daughters of Proetus [Προίτος]. The queen of Cyprus (1) had made them oversexed. Naked and out of their minds, they raced across part of the Peloponnese, according to the story. Maddened by their disease, they travelled to other parts of Greece. I hear that the women of Sparta were also attacked by a bacchic frenzy, as were the women of Chios. The divinely inspired madness of the Boeotian women has been made notorious by tragedy. (2)

They say that only the daughters of Minyas, Leucippe, Arsippe, and Alcithoe, rebelled against the dance in honour of Dionysus, and they did so for love of their husbands; for this reason they did not become maenads of the god. He was angry. They sat at their looms and toiled industriously in honour of Ergane (3), and suddenly ivy and wines began to envelop the looms and snakes made their lair in the baskets of wool. Wine and milk dripped down from the ceiling. But not even these events persuaded the women to join in the worship of the god.

Then they committed a terrible act, not on Cithaeron, but no less serious than the one perpetrated on Cithaeron. (4) The Daughters of Minyas tore to pieces, as if he were a fawn, the young child of Leucippe, a boy still of tender years. This was their first act of madness, and then they rushed off to join the women who had been maenads from the first. The latter chased them away because of their pollu-tion, and they then became birds, one changing herself into a crow, the second into a bat, and the third an owl.

(1) Aphrodite
(2) Aelian bezieht sich hier auf die „Bakchen“ des Euripides, möglicherweise auch auf die nicht erhaltene Tetralogie „Lykurgeia“ des Aischylos.
(3) Ergane war ein Beiname der Athene als Schutzherrin des Webens.
(4)Im Kithairon zerreißen Agaue und ihre Mänaden den Pentheus.