how is --hex-wordlist supposed to function?

[ragequit]

I see, I misunderstood. However, I changed to to hex encoding, then ran it again. The candidates are correct this time, but the crack still failed.

Session..........: hashcat
Status...........: Exhausted
Hash.Type........: NTLM
Hash.Target......: bc4a371bba2211148ebcdee649c561fc
Time.Started.....: Fri May 10 15:12:49 2019 (1 sec)
Time.Estimated...: Fri May 10 15:12:50 2019 (0 secs)
Guess.Base.......: File (test)
Guess.Queue......: 1/1 (100.00%)
Speed.#1.........:     4379 H/s (0.01ms) @ Accel:64 Loops:1 Thr:1024 Vec:1
Speed.#2.........:        0 H/s (0.00ms) @ Accel:64 Loops:1 Thr:1024 Vec:1
Speed.#3.........:        0 H/s (0.00ms) @ Accel:64 Loops:1 Thr:1024 Vec:1
Speed.#4.........:        0 H/s (0.00ms) @ Accel:64 Loops:1 Thr:1024 Vec:1
Speed.#*.........:     4379 H/s
Recovered........: 0/1 (0.00%) Digests, 0/1 (0.00%) Salts
Progress.........: 1/1 (100.00%)
Rejected.........: 0/1 (0.00%)
Restore.Point....: 0/1 (0.00%)
Restore.Sub.#1...: Salt:0 Amplifier:0-1 Iteration:0-1
Restore.Sub.#2...: Salt:0 Amplifier:0-0 Iteration:0-1
Restore.Sub.#3...: Salt:0 Amplifier:0-0 Iteration:0-1
Restore.Sub.#4...: Salt:0 Amplifier:0-0 Iteration:0-1
Candidates.#1....: otoño -> otoño