Gaap

GAAP

The Goetic prince and president who carries a magician swiftly across the world, binds familiars and turns hearts to love or hatred.

Who Gaap is to practitioners today

Gaap is one of the most versatile spirits in the Goetia, and one of the oldest in the record.

In the Ars Goetia he is the thirty-third spirit, a Prince and President, and in Weyer’s Pseudomonarchia Daemonum he is called Tap. He appears as a man when the sun is in the southern signs, and he commands sixty-six legions.

The grimoire gives him a wide office: he teaches philosophy and the liberal sciences, makes men insensible or ignorant, causes love or hatred, reveals things past, present and to come, and delivers familiar spirits out of the possession of other magicians. He can carry or fetch men swiftly from one place to another.

Practitioners describe him as strong and willing, particularly for work involving other people’s minds and bonds.

Why people work with Gaap

Classic reasons

• Teaching philosophy and the liberal sciences
• Causing love or hatred
• Delivering familiars from other magicians
• Carrying men swiftly from place to place
• Revealing things past, present and to come

Modern reasons

• Love, attraction and the turning of affection
• Ending unwanted attachments or breaking an obsession
• Learning, philosophy and mental discipline
• Astral travel and swift movement
• Divination and knowledge of hidden matters
• Acquiring a familiar or spirit helper

Traditional, for reference

• Prince and President of the Ars Goetia, number 33
• Called Tap by Weyer
• Commands 66 legions

Gaap at a glance

• Name: Gaap, also Goap and Tap
• Rank: Prince and President
• Number: 33rd spirit of the Ars Goetia
• Legions: 66
• Form: a man, when the sun is in the southern signs
• Sources: Weyer, Pseudomonarchia Daemonum; the Lesser Key of Solomon

Correspondences

Used in Black Witch Coven (from our own practice and modern demonolatry):

• Planet: Venus and Mercury
• Element: Air
• Day: Friday and Wednesday
• Colours: green, red, gold
• Incense: rose, sandalwood, dragon’s blood
• Symbols: a southern sun, a pair of wings, a knot

Working with Gaap today

Relationship before requests

Gaap is strong, so approach him with a clear, specific request.

Give him one focus at a time: a love working, a study goal or a journey.

Be willing to act on what he shows you.

Nothing is guaranteed. No practitioner controls a spirit of any level. What comes of a working is always the spirit’s to give, and this page describes what people report, not what will happen.

The altar

• A green or red cloth
• A red or green candle with his sigil
• A rose or a small piece of rose quartz
• Dragon’s blood or rose incense
• A pair of feathers for the winged side of his work

Offerings

• Red wine and honey
• Rose, dragon’s blood and sandalwood
• A drop or two of blood on a candle or on his sigil
• Time and attention to the work you have asked for

Timing

Fridays and Venus hours for love work, Wednesdays for study, and the waxing moon.

Signs of contact

• A sudden warm or flushed feeling
• Dreams of travel or of a person you have asked about
• Movement in a relationship within days
• A sense of being lifted or carried
• Synchronicities around the request

Prayers and invocations to Gaap

Opening invocation

Gaap, prince and president, I call you by name.

You who turn the heart and carry the traveller, attend me.

I come with a clear request.

Prayer for love

Gaap, move the heart that I have named toward honest affection.

Let it come freely and without delay.

I give my thanks and my offering.

Prayer for learning

Gaap, teach me philosophy and the liberal sciences.

Sharpen my mind and settle my attention.

I will study what you give.

Closing and release

Gaap, I thank you for your attention.

Go in peace to your own place. Return when I call.

Questions people actually ask

Does Gaap cause love?

The grimoire says he causes love or hatred. Practitioners use him for attraction work and for releasing attachments. Results are not guaranteed.

Is he the same as Tap?

Yes. Weyer calls him Tap.

What are his legions?

He commands 66 in the grimoire.

What if nothing happens?

Make the request more specific and repeat the offering across several days.

Inside the Course

Some material on Gaap is not published on this website. Black Witch Coven has had hosting companies flag the site in the past, so the fuller rites are held for the course instead. This is not a sales pitch, it is the reality of running an old and popular site like this one.

Inside the course:

• The full Goetic rite for Gaap
• Love and obsession workings aimed at a named person
• Rites for delivering or acquiring a familiar
• Pact and dedication rites with Gaap