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 [[File:Picatrix-Saturn.png|300px|thumb|Page depicting Saturn in the Latin edition of the ''Picatrix'']]
-'''''Picatrix''''' is the Latin name used today for a 400-page book of [[ritual magic|magic]] and [[astrology]] originally written in Arabic under the title ''Ghāyat al-Ḥakīm'' (Arabic: غاية الحكيم), which most scholars assume was originally written in the middle of the 11th century, though an argument for composition in the first half of the 10th century has been made. The Arabic work was translated into Spanish and then into Latin during the 13th century, at which time it got the Latin title ''Picatrix''.
+'''''Picatrix''''' is the Latin name used today for a 400-page book of [[natural magic]] and [[astrology]] originally written in Arabic under the title ''Ghāyat al-Ḥakīm'' (Arabic: غاية الحكيم), which most scholars assume was originally written in the middle of the 11th century, though an argument for composition in the first half of the 10th century has been made. The Arabic work was translated into Spanish and then into Latin during the 13th century, at which time it got the Latin title ''Picatrix''.
 The Spanish and Latin versions were the only ones known to Western scholars until Wilhelm Printz discovered an Arabic version in or around 1920.