After a person's death, the main indicant that the person will become a draugr is that the corpse is not in a horizontal position.

In that haul of fish, which the cop would read with the vision of a true Gypsy poring over tea leaves, he would find an omen or an indicant that would bring him back with warnings and new questions.

One side matched Actus non tacit reum, nisi mens sit rea-"The act does not make a man guilty, unless the mind be also guilty"-against Acta exteriora indicant interiora secreta-"By the outward acts we are to judge of the inward thoughts."