Gaap

Gaap - once of the order of potentates (powers), now a fallen angel, Gaap serves, in hell, as a "great president and a mighty prince." As king of the south, he rules 66 legions of infernal spirits.  His sigil is reproduced in The Book of Black Magic and of Pacts, p. 176. [See also The Book of Ceremonial Magic and the Lesser Key of Solomon (the latter known also as The Lemegeton).]  Gaap is pictured in De Plancy, Dictionnaire Infernal, 1863 ed., in the form of a human being with huge bat's wings.  (a)

Goap - formerly an angel of the order of powers; now fallen and in Hell.  Goap is one of the infernal regions' 11 presidents.  He is also known as Gaap and Tap. [Rf. Scot, Discoverie of Witchcraft; Waite, The Lemegeton.]  That Goap was once of the order of pwers "was proved after infinite research," reports Spence, An Encyclopaedia of Occultism.  According to demonologists, Goap was "prince of the west."  (a)

Goap: Prince of the West (b)

Goap king and prince of the west, may be bound from the third houre, till noone, and from the ninth houre till evening. (g)

Gaap, alias Tap, a great president and a prince, he appeareth in a meridionall signe, and when he taketh humane shape he is the guide of the foure principall kings, as mightie as Bileth. There were certeine necromancers that offered sacrifices and burnt offerings unto him; and to call him up, they exercised an art, saieng that Salomon the wise made it. Which is false: for it was rather Cham, the sonne of Noah, who after the floud began first to invocate wicked spirits. He invocated Bileth, and made an art in his name, and a booke which is knowne to manie mathematicians. There were burnt offerings and sacrifices made, and gifts given, and much wickednes wrought by the exorcists, who mingled therewithall the holie names of God, the which in that art are everie where expressed. Marie there is an epistle of those names written by Salomon, as also write Helias Hierosolymitanus and Helisæus. It is to be noted, that if anie exorcist have the art of Bileth, and cannot make him stand before him, nor see him, I may not bewraie how and declare the meanes to conteine him, bicause it is abhomination, and for that I have learned nothing from Salomon of his dignitie and office. But yet I will not hide this; to wit, that he maketh a man woonderfull in philosophie and all the liberall sciences: he maketh love, hatred, insensibilitie, invisibilitie, consecration, and consecration of those things that are belonging unto the domination of Amaymon, and delivereth familiars out of the possession of other conjurors, answering truly and perfectly of things present, past, & to come, & transferreth men most speedilie into other nations, he ruleth sixtie six legions, & was of the order of potestats. (g)

GAAP. - The Thirty-third Spirit is Gaap.  He is a Great President and a Mighty Prince. He appeareth when the Sun is in some of the Southern Signs, in a Human Shape, going before Four Great and Mighty Kings, as if lie were a Guide to conduct  them along on their way. His Office is to make men Insensible or Ignorant; as also in Philosophy to make them Knowing, and in all the Liberal Sciences. He can cause Love or Hatred, also he can teach thee to consecrate those things that belong to the Dominion of AMAYMON his King. He can deliver Familiars out of the Custody of other Magicians, and answereth truly and perfectly of things Past, Present, and to Come. He can carry and re-carry men very speedily from one Kingdom to another, at the Will and Pleasure of the Exorcist. He ruleth over 66 Legions of Spirits, and he was of the Order of Potentates. His Seal is this to be made and to be worn as aforesaid, etc. (h)

The Names of Some of the Good and Bad Spirits Solomon Made Use of which are mentioned in Enoch's Seven Tables, with a true account of their shapes, powers, government and effects, with their several seigniories* and degrees.

38 GAAP, a great President and a Prince, taketh human shape, maketh a man wonderfully knowing in philosophy and in all liberal sciences.  He maketh love hatred, transferreth man most speedily to other nations, ruleth 66 Legions.  He was of the Order of Powers.  (s)

*this is the spelling in the text

Resource List - all entries are taken verbatim from the original source:

(a) "The Dictionary of Angels" by Gustav Davidson, © 1967

(b) "Encyclopaedia of Occultism" by Lewis Spence. ©1959

(g) Pseudomonarchia daemonum - Johann Wier (1583)

(h) The Lesser Key of Solomon.  GOETIA.  Compiled and Translated By S.L. "MacGregor" Mathers.  Editing and Additional Material By Aleister Crowley

(s) "A Treatise on Angel Magic, Being a Complete Transcription of Ms. Harley 6482 in the British Library."  Edited & Introduced by Adam McLean.  Phanes Press.  ©1990.  First published in 1949.