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Saba

In Ossianic legend, wife of Finn and mother of Oisin. In the form of a fawn, she was captured by Finn in the chase, but noticing that his man-hounds would do her no hurt, he gave her shelter in his Dun of Allen. The next morning he found her transformed into a beautiful woman. She told him that an enchanter had compelled her to assume the shape of a fawn, but that her original form would be restored if she reached Dun Allen. Finn made her his wife, and ceased for a while from battle and the chase. Hearing one day, however, that the Northmen's warships were in the Bay of Dublin, he mustered his men and went to fight them. He returned victorious, but to find Saba gone. The enchanter, taking advantage of his absence, had appeared to her in the likeness of Finn with his hounds and so lured her from the dun, when she became a fawn again.

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