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Gaap (also Tap, Coap, Taob or Goap) is a
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pars. 25, 28, 56 Gaap (as ''Caap'') is still a prince, but appears as a knight, brings gold and silver anywhere, and rules twenty legions of spirits. Accomplished occultist Carroll "Poke" Runyon treats Gaap and Coap as different entities, although they were historically the same figure. According to Thomas Rudd, Gaap is opposed by the '' Shem HaMephorash'' angel Ieuiah.Rudd, ed. Skinner & Rankine, p.366-376
Gaap (also Tap, Coap, Taob or Goap) is a demon
A demon is a malevolent supernatural entity. Historically, belief in demons, or stories about demons, occurs in folklore, mythology, religion, occultism, and literature; these beliefs are reflected in Media (communication), media including
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that is described in demonological grimoire
A grimoire () (also known as a book of spells, magic book, or a spellbook) is a textbook of magic, typically including instructions on how to create magical objects like talismans and amulets, how to perform magical spells, charms, and divin ...
s such as ''the Lesser Key of Solomon
''The Lesser Key of Solomon'', also known by its Latin title ''Lemegeton Clavicula Salomonis'' or simply the ''Lemegeton'', is an anonymously authored grimoire on Goetia, sorcery, mysticism and Magic (supernatural), magic. It was compiled in th ...
'', Johann Weyer's ''Pseudomonarchia Daemonum
The ''Pseudomonarchia Daemonum'' () first appears as an appendix to ''De praestigiis daemonum'' (1577) by Johann Weyer.Pseudomonarchia Daemonum (Liber officiorum spirituum); Johann Weyer, ed. Joseph Peterson; 2000. Available online aEsoteric Arc ...
'', and the Munich Manual of Demonic Magic
The ''Munich Manual of Demonic Magic'' or ''Liber incantationum, exorcismorum et fascinationum variarum'' (CLM 849 of the Bavarian State Library, Munich) is a fifteenth-century goetic grimoire manuscript. The text, composed in Latin, is largel ...
, as well as Jacques Collin de Plancy's '' Dictionnaire Infernal''.
Demon
These works describe Gaap as a prince in human form who incites love. The Munich Manual also says that "Taob" also provides medical care for women, transforms them to make it easier to get to a lover, renders them infertile, and rules twenty-five legions of spirits. The other sources instead describe Gaap as a president, giving him the power to teach philosophy and liberal arts, make others invisible, steal familiars from other magicians, make men stupid, and carry men between kingdoms; in addition to ruling sixty-six legions of demons. Johann Weyer also connects Gaap to necromancers, and states that he was first called upon by Noah's son Ham, along with Beleth. He was of the order of '' potestates''. Gaap (or ''Goap'') is also one of the four cardinal spirits, of the south in the Lesser Key of Solomon, the west in the Pseudomonarchia Daemonum. In the '' Livre des Esperitz'',"Les who's who démonologiques de la Renaissance et leurs ancêtres médiévaux" by Jean-Patrice Boudet, Médiévales 44, Spring 2003(online link)
pars. 25, 28, 56 Gaap (as ''Caap'') is still a prince, but appears as a knight, brings gold and silver anywhere, and rules twenty legions of spirits. Accomplished occultist Carroll "Poke" Runyon treats Gaap and Coap as different entities, although they were historically the same figure. According to Thomas Rudd, Gaap is opposed by the '' Shem HaMephorash'' angel Ieuiah.Rudd, ed. Skinner & Rankine, p.366-376
Modern depictions
* Gaap is depicted in the visual novel ''Umineko When They Cry
is a Japanese dōjin soft visual novel series produced by 07th Expansion. Its first episode debuted at Comiket 72 for Windows in August 2007. The story focuses on a group of eighteen people on a secluded island for a period of two days, ...
'' as a female demon who serves the witch Beatrice. She has the ability to teleport herself and others.
* Gaap is played by Paapa Essiedu in the 2023 " Demon 79" episode of ''Black Mirror''.
See also
*Amaymon
In demonology, Amaymon (also Amaimon, or Amoymon) is a prince of Hell, and, according to some grimoires, the only one who has power over Asmodai.
A curious characteristic of this spirit is alleged in almost all copies of the Ars Goetia in Englis ...
– the cardinal spirit of the east in ''The Lesser Key of Solomon''
* Corson (demon)
In demonology, Corson is one of the four principal kings that have power over the seventy-two demons that are supposedly constrained by King Solomon, according to the Lesser Key of Solomon. Corson is not to be Conjuration (summoning), conjured exc ...
– the cardinal spirit of the west in ''The Lesser Key of Solomon''
* Ziminiar
In demonology, Ziminiar or Zymymar is one of the four principal kings that have power over the seventy-two demons that are supposedly constrained by King Solomon, according to the Lesser Key of Solomon. Ziminiar is not to be Conjuration (summoning) ...
– the cardinal spirit of the north in ''The Lesser Key of Solomon''
References
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