The Seventy-Two Spirits · 33

Gaap

Also recorded as Gáap

Making people insensible or ignorant or learned in philosophy and sciences, causing love or hatred, freeing familiars, divining events, and carrying people between kingdoms. [1]

Goetia 1904

Spirit profile

Rank: President and Prince [1]
Attributed Office: Making people insensible or ignorant or learned in philosophy and sciences, causing love or hatred, freeing familiars, divining events, and carrying people between kingdoms. [1]
Legion Count: 66 legions. [1]
Description of the Entity: A human figure leading four great kings when the Sun is in southern signs. [1]

Illustration of Gaap — **Artistic interpretation** Gaap · Goetia 1904.

Gaap, First-edition plate 2, figure 38, attributed to Gaap — **Source reproduction** Gaap · First-edition plate 2, figure 38, attributed to Gaap.

The earlier English account

Scot’s Gaap or Tap appears in a southern sign and leads four principal kings in human form. His titles president and prince, sixty-six legions and former affiliation to Powers correspond to the later account. The older passage attributes teaching, love and hatred, invisibility, releasing familiars from other conjurors and swift travel to distant countries. [2][1]

Gaap’s earlier notice also contains a discussion of the origin of the conjuring art. It disputes an attribution to Solomon and instead names Cham, the son of Noah, while separately mentioning an epistle of divine names attributed to Solomon. This passage brings competing claims about authorship into the spirit inventory itself. [2][1]

Sources and editions

The Book of the Goetia of Solomon the King — entry 33: Gaap
S. L. MacGregor Mathers, translated; Aleister Crowley, edited, The Book of the Goetia of Solomon the King (1904), first-edition facsimile supplied by Keep Silence. Shemhamphorash, numbered catalogue entry 33, Gaap; facsimile PDF page 18 (PDF index includes three preliminary plates)
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The Discoverie of Witchcraft · Gaap
Reginald Scot, The Discoverie of Witchcraft (1584); Brinsley Nicholson’s reprint of the first edition (1886), Project Gutenberg transcription. Book XV, chapter II, Gaap; 1886 reprint page 321 and following
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