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She said she had been able to get festive party outfits from charity shops – last year she picked up an elf dress for £3.99 and a sweater for her sausage dog Minnie.

"I didn't even feel it. He's angry. He's an angry little elf," Paul said of the slap.

The parade winds up with an appearance by the jolly old elf, Santa Claus, and his reindeer.

Every other element of Christmas is also jacked: the snowmen, the polar bears and even the elves or, rather, the E.L.F.

She belongs to a Nordic tribe of elves known as the Monsters.