Folktales often involve adventure, testing the strength and intelligence of the hero before they return home to the mundane world. Because of the role of women in folklore, they are often relegated to stay at home, or to use cunning to overcome strength. Youth is a common theme when young women are the heroes of tales (Sims and Stephens, 2011). In Scottish and Appalachia folklore, there is Molly Whuppie/Mutzmag, a young girl disregarded by her sisters who uses cunning to trick a witch and a cannibal and win a hefty reward from a wealthy benefactor (Davenport 1993). When she is an adult, we get heroines such as Mulan, a young woman who dresses as a boy and uses masculinity to help save China. Women in their sexual prime are rarely allowed to be the main character unless the prize is marriage in the end. Here we will look at Artemis and Athena and how they negotiated remaining virgin goddesses, as well as Atalanta who epitomized both her masculine and feminine sides.