Difference between revisions of "Gaap"

[[File:Gaap.jpg|thumb|Gaap as depicted in ''[[The Infernal Dictionary]]'']]'''Gaap''' (also '''Tap''', '''Coap''', '''Taob''', '''Goap''') is a [[Goetic demon]] that is described in demonological [[grimoire]]s such as the ''[[Lesser Key of Solomon]]'', Johann Weyer's ''[[Pseudomonarchia Daemonum]]'', and the ''[[Munich Manual of Demonic Magic]]'', as well as Jacques Collin de Plancy's ''[[Dictionnaire Infernal]]''.  He rules twenty-five or twenty-six legions of spirits.  He is also one of the four cardinal spirits, of the south in the ''Lesser Key of Solomon'', the west in the ''[[Pseudomonarchia Daemonum]]''. Accomplished occultist Carroll "Poke" Runyon treats Gaap and Coap as different entities, although they were historically the same figure.